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Friday Inspiration 447
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Pretty interesting piece about the “top thinkers” of 1974 trying to predict what the world would be like in 50 years, and what they got right and what they got wrong. One prediction: “commuting for business purposes would go out of style. It would become more convenient to let electrons, rather than people, do the traveling…”
(Via Kottke.org)
In my recent efforts to learn how to rest better/at all, I have been thinking a lot about this Oliver Burkeman piece from early August, “What would it mean to be done for the day?”
I don’t listen to baseball on the radio much anymore, but I will definitely hum with nostalgia while reading someone else’s essay about his family’s history of listening to baseball on the radio. (gift link)
This is five years old but I just saw found out about it through a meme I saw, and was happy to find out that it’s true—a New Zealand man who found out he was going to be laid off from his job brought an emotional support clown to the meeting.
Do you have to have listened to music on cassette tapes to appreciate the aesthetics of cassette tapes? Or to appreciate this monumental effort to archive the huge range of cassette designs produced in the heyday of tapes? I sure hope not.
As an “Inbox Zero” (ok, lately more like “Inbox 20” person), I cannot relate to this, but I am impressed by it. Congrats to this guy on 100,000 unread emails.
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