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Here Are Some Links For Your Weekly Reading - July 7th, 2024

Here are some of the posts that caught my eye recently. Hope you find something interesting.

Lighter Links:

• Do You See Your Life as a Portfolio of Choices? The Importance of Choice Bracketing in Decision-Making. (KatyMilkman)
• Artificial Intelligence vs. Genuine Insight. (Forbes)
• Why Bad is Stronger Than Good? (GiacomoFalcone)
• Familiarity Breeds Contempt: Why We End up Disliking People. (Spring)
• Death Valley Sets a New Daily Record With a Searing 128 Degrees as the Unrelenting Heat Wave Drags On. (CNN)

 

Trading Links:

• Investors Pour $27.1 Billion Into A.I. Start-Ups, Defying a Downturn. (NYT)
• Why Your Fund Manager Can't Beat Today's Stock Market. (Wall Street Journal)
• The Prestige-Prosperity Gap. (WorkingTheorys)
• 'We're Not Dead Yet.' Baby Boomers' Good Times Drive the Economy. (WSJ)
• Diaper Change: Japan's Aging Society Is Transforming the Baby Care Business. (CNN)

Buying a Computer in 1994 ...

We take for granted a lot of the technology we have today.  Computers and phones have evolved so fast that it's hard to remember that they haven't been around for many years. 

When my youngest son was born in 1993, cassette tapes and the Sony Walkman were popular.  I had a brick-sized phone hardwired into my car, and we had a Macintosh-II in the study.

Here is a throwback picture showcasing the cool tech we had back then. 

 

Everything in that photo now exists in the cheapest of smartphones.  And the features and functions available now far exceed my wildest expectations back then.

For a blast from the past and a look back at what used to be top-of-the-line ... here's a video of people buying a computer in 1994. 

 

via David Hoffman

Video transfer and playback.  160-megabyte hard drive.  32 megahertz.  All for the low price of $2,000. 

I can remember back further than 1993, because I'm old enough that I didn't have my first computer until after I graduated college.  My first Macintosh had floppy disks measured in K, not megs or gigs.  For context, my first job out of school was at a law firm where the only people who used computers were in the typing pool.  And when I said I wanted a computer, the lawyers said "No!" because it would look bad.

It's pretty cool to see how far we've come! 

Still, someday soon, they will look back at the tech we have now as "primitive" and "quaint".

I can't wait!