The 9-to-5 job is dying. But what will an increasingly independent workforce mean for the economy?
Traditional work is dying.
These Stunning Photos Show Life On The Densest City Block On Earth
Before it was demolished, Hong Kong’s Kowloon Walled City was a marvel of urban life. Its dark, vibrant imagery has influenced pop culture in ways you don’t even realize.
Kowloon Walled City was once the densest city block in the world, with 33,000 people and 1,000 businesses squeezed into tiny shacks stacked 14 stories high. Photographer Greg Girard, who lived in Hong Kong in the mid-1980s, stumbled on the development one night when he was shooting pictures of the nearby airport.
Where Are The Women In Tech? Coding Bootcamps
At coding schools across the country, there’s much less of a gender imbalance than in computer science programs and at tech companies. Why?
Only 29% of all employees across the most influential U.S. technology companies—Google, Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, and Intel—are women. But that includes salespeople, service workers, and communications professionals. Companies that break out gender ratio by role report an an even more drastic disparity. At Twitter, 10% of technical workers are women. At Facebook, it’s 16%.
These Engineers Just Built Their Own “Pied Piper” Compression Algorithm
A team of engineers at Dropbox’s Hack Week re-created the fictional compression schema from HBO’s Silicon Valley.
You would be forgiven for thinking that the elevator pitch for Daniel Reiter Horn’s latest project sounds familiar. That’s because there’s a good chance you saw it on HBO. In fact, everything about the project, right down to its name, was ripped right from the network’s hit comedy Silicon Valley. And that was precisely the point.
Why You Can’t Get Rich Inventing The Banana Split
The creator of the banana split never received royalties. Because ideas in food belong to culture.
In 1904, a 23-year-old apprentice pharmacist named David Strickler was manning the soda fountain at a drug store in Latrobe, PA. On a whim, he sliced a banana lengthwise and put ice cream inside for a few customers. Evidently, they liked it, because the banana split would go viral in the early 1900s, spreading to soda shops everywhere, transcending from a 2,000-calorie uber dessert to a piece of Americana recognized around the world.
The Rise Of Orange Wine
Why the world’s oldest winemaking technique is making a comeback.
For years, I’ve been going to Charleston, South Carolina, to visit family, and for years, I have tried to secure a dinner reservation at FIG. The James Beard award-winning restaurant helped spark a gustatory revolution in that historic city when it opened in 2003, and after many attempts, my husband and I finally got a reservation for dinner in June. I was prepared for the menu to surprise me. I’d heard about chef Mike Lata’s compelling takes on seasonal fare. I hadn’t expected, however, for the surprises to start with the wine list. There, tucked below the whites and mixed in with the rosé, was a category for orange wine. Orange what?
Why Companies Need To Think Deeply About The Labor Implications Of A Second Machine Age
Automation may boost a business’s bottom line, but overlooking the effects on people will have potentially nasty repercussions.
The rise of robots and other smart machines is likely to have huge ramifications for the way we work and perhaps whether many of us work at all. One often cited study shows that 47% of today’s jobs are at “high risk” of automation over the next 20 years.
This Ingenious $20 Lamp Gets All Its Energy From Gravity
Three years ago, GravityLight raised a ton of money through crowdfunding. Then it was time to actually make it work.
The ingenious GravityLight—a light that gets all its energy from its own weight—first appeared about three years ago. We wrote about it as it was launching on Indiegogo and went on to raise $399,590.
Can A Meal’s Presentation Change Your Perception Of Its Overall Quality?
A new study suggests that the story we’re told about the food we eat may be more important to diners today than the actual meal itself.
The last few years has seen a shift in the restaurant world. Food-based reality TV and food media has contributed to the rise of the celebrity chef, as well as the foodie. Chefs like to be in the spotlight as much as diners like to feel personally catered to. But Is all of this pomp and circumstance becoming more important than the actual food itself?
“Neo-Futuristic” Sounds Will Make Japanese Electric Cars Sound Like Space Ships
To solve the problem of noiseless EVs, the music company Roland will provide “dynamic and dramatic sounds” that change with driving conditions.
What should an electric car sound like? That’s the question that Japanese car maker GLM asked when considering its electric ZZ Roadster. And instead of coming up with something itself, it passed the task to someone who knows about electric sounds: Roland, the synth and musical instrument maker. Together, they will “co-develop a neo-futuristic driving sound generation system.”
