When I check out Roger Cheng’s wrap-up of the leading tech stories of 2018, a New Yorker animation from recently popped into my head. It reveals a physician providing a concerned client his medical diagnosis: “Here’s your problem — it looks like you’re paying attention to what’s going on.”
That practically summarize the news.
We’re just midway into the year and it currently seems like it’s been years. Practically every day, some outrageous occasion or stunt gets magnified in our social networks feeds, mobile informs and the scrolling chyrons at the bottom of television screens.
And I’m simply speaking about tech news.
Yanny vsLaurel Mark Zuckerberg asking forgiveness consistently for a Facebook error that handed out individual information on 87 million individuals. The FCC eliminating net neutrality policies although United States customers extremely support a reasonable and open web. Waymo v Uber and self-driving cars and truck mishaps. Saying farewell to StephenHawking Google’s kinda frightening Duplex AI voice assistant. Mad researcher and billionaire Elon Musk pressing tunnels for underground transportation systems and financing The Boring Company with baseball hats, weapons and Lego- like bricks produced from the uncovered dirt.
And I’ve got to call out Fortnite mania and fights royale.
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“The sheer volume of headlines and areas they touch — everywhere from gaming to self-driving cars to politics — underscores how technology has steadily taken over our lives,” composesCheng “Even if you wanted to, escaping the tendrils of tech is no easy feat.”
Flip through our list and let us understand if something else has actually stuck out for you. I’d currently include among the most feel-good social networks minutes this year: James Corden’s taking Paul McCartney for a carpool karaoke flight inLiverpool It’s 23 minutes, 42 seconds that advises you that tech = great, particularly when that makes it possible for individuals around the world to socialize with Sir Paul and sing along to Beatles’ classics. Enjoy.
(Disclosure: CNET and The Late Late Show with James Corden, on which Carpool Karaoke appears, are both owned by CBS.)
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