What's the Point? #42 (Hawaii)

A.I. May Not Take Your Job, but It Could Become Your Boss June 24, 2019
The goal of automation has always been efficiency. What if artificial intelligence sees humanity itself as the thing to be optimized?
In Streaming Age, Classical Music Gets Lost in the Metadata June 23, 2019
Has music streaming ignored aficionados of Mozart and Beethoven? Two new services, Idagio and Primephonic, address the needs of the genre’s discerning listeners.
What Happens After Amazon’s Domination Is Complete? Its Bookstore Offers Clues June 23, 2019
Popular novels, technical tomes and self-published books are pirated and sold on Amazon. That may actually be helping the company extend its grip on the book business.
5 Lessons From Microsoft’s Antitrust Woes, by People Who Lived It June 23, 2019
The Microsoft case from the 1990s provides a road map for today’s tech giants and regulators.
Hypersonic Missiles Are Unstoppable. And They’re Starting a New Global Arms Race. June 23, 2019
The new weapons — which could travel at more than 15 times the speed of sound with terrifying accuracy — threaten to change the nature of warfare.

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G. Andrew Page, Ph.D.