Technology and Artificial Intelligence

 Culture

• The Amish understand a life-changing truth about technology the rest of us don’t (Quartz)
• For Sale: Survey Data on Millions of High School Students
• No Cell Signal, No Wi-Fi, No Problem. Growing Up Inside America’s ‘Quiet Zone’. (New York Times)
  

Interaction

• 4 weird things that happen when you videoconference (The Converasation)

Digital Divide

• Digital Divide Is Wider Than We Think (The New York Times)

Work

• Five skills everybody will need for the jobs of the future (Quartz)
• What jobs will still be around in 20 years? Read this to prepare your future (The Guardian)
• Workers will simply try to survive, rather than prosper, as tech takes over the economy (Market Watch)
• Making the Machines That Replace Humans (The Atlantic)

Aging

• New technologies help seniors age in place — and not feel alone (USA Today)

Healthcare

• Artificial Intelligence Could Help Solve America's Impending Mental Health Crisis (Time)
• Sheep-Human Hybrids Made in Lab (National Geographic)

• Scientists turn spinach leaf into working heart tissue (The Washington Post)

Social Media & Smart Phones

• Why we should stop 'phubbing' (Medical News Today)
• Texting Culture Is Giving All of Us Anxiety (Vice)
• Facebook Shut Down An Artificial Intelligence Program That Developed Its Own Language (Uproxx)
• Losing smartphone is almost as stressful as terror threat (The Telegraph)
• When they’re not eating avocado toast, millennials spend five hours a day doing this…(Market Watch)

Gender

• Machines Taught by Photos Learn a Sexist View of Women (Wired)
• AI has a gender problem. Here’s what to do about it (World Economic Forum)

Race and Ethnicity

• AI is hurting people of color and the poor. Experts want to fix that (CNN)

Social Class

• AI algorithms intended to root out welfare fraud often end up punishing the poor instead (The Conversation)

Social Change

• Here's everything you need to know about blockchains, the tech that could be as disruptive as the internet (Business Insider)

Artificial Intelligence

• Artificial Intelligence: Myth and Reality (Courier)

• Why Do We Hurt Robots? (The New York Times)

• 3 ways to teach robots right from wrong (World Economic Forum)

• Saudi Arabia grants citizenship to robot Sophia (DW European Journal)
• Charlie Rose Interviews a Robot (CBS News)
• DeepMind AI learns to act aggressive when it doesn't get its way (The Inquirer)
• Forget typing: Computers that can read your MIND and convert your thoughts into text are on their way (Daily Mail)

Intimacy & Sexuality

• A third of men say they would have sex with a ROBOT (Daily Mail)
• Dawn of Sexbots (CNET)
• Experts predict human-robot marriage will be legal by 2050 (Quartz)
• Should we ban sex robots while we have the chance? (The Guardian)

• Can Robot Pets Comfort You As Well As Real Ones? (CBS Philly)

Technology and Artificial Intelligence In Historical Context

• How Clocks Changed Humanity Forever, Making Us Masters and Slaves of Time (Open Culture)