Willkommen in der Zukunft, in der sleeke Apps die News fixen wollen und sich zwischen Publisher und Publikum klemmen. In der einige wenige creators den Kuchen alleine essen. Und in der immer Tag eins ist.

Medien

• The Next Big Thing in Podcasts is Talking Back (Öffnet in neuem Fenster): Poll, Q&As, and comment sections could turn podcasting interactive.

• The New York Times Is Building a New Audio Product (Öffnet in neuem Fenster) designed to help you understand the most important stories of the day. It includes news, opinion, narrative storytelling and more.

• True Crime Is Rotting Our Brains (Öffnet in neuem Fenster). I would sooner get stabbed again than have someone make a podcast about me.

• Flipboard’s on a mission to be the internet’s best recommendation engine (Öffnet in neuem Fenster): By leaning into curation and creators, the app is trying to turn from news to everything people care about.

• The creator economy is failing to spread the wealth (Öffnet in neuem Fenster). It turns out that a small portion of creators still reap the most revenue for their work across multiple platforms.

• Inside the utterly bizarre analytics of Ozy (Öffnet in neuem Fenster). Read to the end for an extremely unfortunate haircut video. Bisschen nerdig, aber rückblickend hätte schon früher jemand sagen müssen, dass das alles großer Quatsch ist.

• Deutschlandfunk-Ritual (Öffnet in neuem Fenster): In der DLF-Presseschau stört kein origineller Gedanke die gepflegte Langeweile.

• Behind SmartNews (Öffnet in neuem Fenster), the $2 billion unicorn trying to fix the news algorithm. Two Japanese programmers, a horde of English teachers and a dose of idealism created a surprise hit.

• The editor-in-chief of the future (Öffnet in neuem Fenster): a job description.

Long

• Day One at the Every: An Excerpt From Dave Eggers’ New Novel (Öffnet in neuem Fenster). Die Fortsetzung von »The Circle«, was ein eher plattes Buch war, aus dem ein dummer Film wurde. Aber alles sehr erfolgreich. Menschen gucken ja auch »Black Mirror« und halten das für geistreich. Wird in Deutschland besonders gut funktionieren, weil hier Bücher noch auf Papier gelesen und das wahre Leben ohne Internet im Wald stattfindet.

• Leave no trace: how a teenage hacker lost himself online (Öffnet in neuem Fenster). Edwin Robbe had a troubled life, but found excitement and purpose by joining an audacious community of hackers. Then the real world caught up with his online activities

• »Hacker X« (Öffnet in neuem Fenster)—the American who built a pro-Trump fake news empire—unmasks himself. He was hired to build a fake news op but now wants to put things right.

• Correspondences from the Edges (Öffnet in neuem Fenster) ist die vierte Ausgabe von Ding, a magazine about the Internet and things.

• The Astronomer Who’s About to See the Skies of Other Earths (Öffnet in neuem Fenster). After the ultra-powerful James Webb Space Telescope launches later this year, Laura Kreidberg will lead two efforts to check the weather on rocky planets orbiting other stars.

• Nokiawave (Öffnet in neuem Fenster): Introducing a subgenre of American action movies depicting state-surveillance, espionage, network technologies, and perpetual motion.

Crypto

• The Internet of Grift (Öffnet in neuem Fenster). NFTs are an even more insidious form of grift than regular crypto products.

Katastrope

• The climate disaster is here. (Öffnet in neuem Fenster) Wie viele aufrüttelnde Doomsday-Szenarien brauchen wir noch? Der Guardian hat hier seine Seite sogar düster eingefärbt und zeigt, wo überall was passiert. Hitze! Extremwetter! Feuer! Flut! Ernteausfälle! Wie schlimm ist es wirklich? »Five Hiroshima atomic bombs dropping into the water every second.«

• Is Sucking Carbon Out of the Air the Solution to Our Climate Crisis? (Öffnet in neuem Fenster) Or just another Big Oil boondoggle? Spoiler: »The machines needed to suck up 10 billion tons of CO2 each year would consume more than half the world’s current energy supply.«

• An Essay About Tiny, Spectacular Futures (Öffnet in neuem Fenster) Written a Week or So After a Very Damning IPCC Climate Report. In Which Lucas Mann Considers the Lives to Come.

Hacking

• LifeTrac 6 (Öffnet in neuem Fenster): Ein Open-Source-Traktor. »This insane freak purrs like a cat and rips the ground. Major success.«

• The Framework Laptop (Öffnet in neuem Fenster) is now shipping! Finally, a high-performance, thin and light notebook designed to last. Sieht ein bisschen nach MacBook aus, aber für Bastler, die Komponenten sollen sich ziemlich einfach selbst tauschen lassen. Supergute Idee, die es schon mal so ähnlich für Smartphones (Öffnet in neuem Fenster) gab. 

Internet Explorer

• Sell! Sell! Sell! (Öffnet in neuem Fenster) Capitalism ramped up in the 21st century, and if you're not selling, you're losing. Here are some products that won capitalism.

• 🎧 Two Two Two Two to Tou-lou-se (Öffnet in neuem Fenster)

• Flippory (Öffnet in neuem Fenster): Software and process relating to the flipping, mirroring, cropping, and replicating of images or parts of images in the pursuit of reinformation.

• Strava Art (Öffnet in neuem Fenster) is made using your GPS computer to create a picture of your activity whether it's cycling, running, swimming, walking, hiking, skiing... anything really!

• What useful unknown website do you wish more people knew about? (Öffnet in neuem Fenster) Ein langer Reddit-Thread für regnerische Herbstabende, down the rabbit hole.

• Map Projection Playground (Öffnet in neuem Fenster)

• Unicode Calendar Generator (Öffnet in neuem Fenster) 📅

• 📺 »students are starting to steal each other's notes with iOS 15 and it's... kind of genius« (Öffnet in neuem Fenster)

Das war Ausgabe #79 von THEFUTURE (Öffnet in neuem Fenster), dem Newsletter über das wilde Internet und die Zukunft der Medien von Ole Reißmann (Öffnet in neuem Fenster).