Welcome to Friday,
Here are five things I thought worth sharing this week.
I loved this piece from several years back written by Tom Hanks about his affection for the typewriter (and his collection of them!).
As neurotechnologies become ever-more sophisticated, the breakthroughs they enable increasingly come up against ethical concerns. Recently, scientists were able to decode a string of thoughts from a human subject – that is, they could understand what he was thinking as he thought it. Is this ethical? What are the options and protections for people subjected to brain imaging technologies?
Lord Byron is Bored, 1821
A list of novels released in 1954, any of which would make insightful reading this year.
As Dr. King’s birthday nears, this weekend is an optimal to read his Letter from Birmingham Jail.
Currently reading: Walden by Henry David Thoreau
Have a creative weekend.
Image: Winter Landscape with Horse and Cart, Johann Bernhard Klombeck. German.
