Ideas and News from the Week of March 18, 2024

Welcome to the elastic ideas newscast. Each week we share the most interesting stories centering on AI, Metaverse, Spatial Computing, XR, Innovation and Cultural Dynamics. Feel free to suggest your favorites to Andrew Schwartz and share with your friends

Week of March 18 2024 | Episode 7 | Monkeys Gone to Heaven

Newscast

From 纽约时报 (some assembly required)

The Department of Justice is doing the William Tell routine. With Apple in its sights over potential anti-trust issues.

But Walt Mossberg is not impressed

From Wired News

If you tied everything together, soon you’ll be able guide your car to your rocketship while posting your comments using solar power all without doing any more than thinking. But it starts with one guy with one chip moving one cursor across a screen

From The Business of Fashion Some Assembly Required

Leaders from the world of Fashion and Ideas came together ( Nelly Mensah ) to talk through where everything we touch and everything we feel come together.

From CoinDesk

Bitcoin’s huge highs are in part due to the upcoming halving of the chain. This will shift the supply, fees for transaction and create the most valuable single bitcoin. Will it brig back the spotlight? That’s up to you!

Netcast

From xr today

This is very important. Breaking through the walled garden of access to extended reality is the key to mass acceptance. When you can view the same thing across any device then you can bring that thing everywhere

From Engadget

This coming Olympics will be the most accessible, and most watchable, ever. New

methods of bringing the games to your home are starting to eek out now - take a look at MLB’s almost volumetric view of home plate

From Vogue Business (Some Assembly Required)

AI is a tool. Like a hammer. Also like a hammer, not everything is a nail

From CoinDesk

The key to all of this web3 stuff is that the utility is more important than the cash value. What does it mean to place virtual machines on the chain? Are there ore opportunities for accountability?

Noisecast

From Pitchfork

Every week, Pitchfork creates a long-form review of a brilliant album. This week when you ask how to get to Carnegie Hall, the answer is Pitchfork. Grab this brilliant performance by Alice Coltrane and join in the joy

From Songwhip

Sudan Archives is the rare Violinist in R&B/Soul/HipHop. She’s brought a spectrum of incredible sounds to the world, and you need to hear her.

From Songwhip

Moormother is a Mercury Prize nominee that combines together hip-hop, jazz, soul, and art in a jubilant mix of exceptional emotion

From Songwhip

Tierra Whack brings a fresh voice, great beats and vulnerable emotions to her new album

Smartcast

From 纽约时报 (Some Assembly Required)

AI is cool and all, but does your AI imagine Rock City? The new law in Tennessee hopes to create some boundaries around the technology that do not include the addition of Minnie Pearle’s price-tags to the side of? every result

From Ad Age

With everything in marketing changing - from privacy to messaging - it’s worthwhile to know how to survive in a cookie-less world.

From Andreessen Horowitz

How do we create a world that is both hospitable for AI and for the people who created the AI? How do you bring the masses to AI?

From Ars Technica

NVIDIA is aiming toward $2000 a share with the goal of creating artificial humans.

Randomcast

From Ad Age

If you’ve been confused by the upside-down M on various McDonald’s packaging lately, it’s probably because you are not part of the subculture that is the audience of the message. But it is the message that’s working for them and one you should understand

From AppleInsider

Like a duck on a lake, the AI paddling under the surface is working very very hard

From The Block

The Federal Reserve is not admitting that they have a secret lab somewhere. Not admitting it . . .

From mum.li

Take a moment and play around with this color generator. Everyone needs a bit of a break

Thanks for the fun folks, see you next week!