Let's learn about Society via these 31 free stories. They are ordered by most time reading created on HackerNoon. Visit the /Learn Repo to find the most read stories about any technology.
1. Embracing Offline-First Technology
Along the way, after getting smartphones and voice-controlled assistants, we've lost the plot. Perhaps embracing offline-first technology will help us find it.
2. Perverse Incentives: A Story About Rats, Nails, and Atrocities
Errors and atrocities happen when hunting for incentives, and humans manipulate the rules, ravaging natural, moral, or cultural ecosystems.
3. 3 Reasons Why Everyone Now Cares About Web3
The world post-pandemic wants real change and Web3 offers new advances to build a better future.
4. Happy Pride Month From HackerNoon!
A code of solidarity.
5. The Black Pterodactyl Event
The failure to recognize the Black Pterodactyl event means we run from fearful attack to fearful attack.
6. Technical Debt and the Obfuscation of Truth
"Tyranny without the tyrant" - Hannah Arendt
7. Metaverse: a New Step for Digital Entertainment or an Economic Gamechanger?
The metaverse could reform industries and societies. This potential was recognized at a state level when Shanghai included metaverse in its 5-year plan.
8. How to Lose Your Legitimacy
Like feudalism and divine right monarchy before it, the creator economy (at least, in its current, highly centralized form) is experiencing a legitimacy crisis.
9. From Sci-Fi to Reality: The Matrix as a Mirror of Our Screen-Centric World
Exploring the parallels between the cult classic The Matrix and our screen-dominated reality.
10. Unbundling Social Networks and Thoughts on The Third Pillar
Two ways to make money in software: bundling and unbundling. Centralized socials polarized views and fueled tribalism. Socializing is about to go vertical
11. "Racism and vigilantism are pervasive on safety platforms"
In one town, police say products like Nextdoor and Ring are helping fight crime. But racism and vigilantism are pervasive on safety platforms.
12. Product 'Longtermism' and the Danger it May Bring
There are no guarantees the future will hold the same values as us, so what right do we have to encode ours upon them?
13. An American Brain Drain the Life of Samuel Ball Represents
Fans of History Channel series The Curse of Oak Island probably know the name Samuel Ball.
14. Turning Your Imagination Into Reality
You need to know when your AirTaxi pickup time is. You think for a moment and the answer pops into your mind in less than a few milliseconds. You suddenly remember to catch up with your friend over in Shanghai and you reach out to him. A flood of joy washes over your mind as the connection is established. He allows you to traverse through his feelings and of a recent holiday as you connect with each other. A virtual message notification pops up in front of your eyes but intuitively, you will it to go away. You feel the AirTaxi landing outside and start walking towards it, through automatic doors, and allow it to carry out an invisible memory check before sitting down…
15. Foundation Series: Data Science, Psychohistory, and the Future of Humanity
A world where the future of humanity can be predicted through an interdisciplinary science called psychohistory! A data scientist's review of Foundation Series.
16. Is "Society 5.0" Supplementing AI as Technology's Latest and Greatest Snake Oil?
Photo Credit, Jeremy Weate
17. Another Perspective On Science
18. The Survival Of Urban Areas
Through millennia of plagues, wars, and natural disasters, cities have borne witness to and magnified human suffering and death.
19. How Diets and Dying Related to Demographics
20. Steps Toward a Decentralized Society
While many of the ideas conjured today are outlandish, real use cases are likely to appear in the near future.
21. Societies and Decentralized Systems Have A Lot In Common
22. OnlyFans’ Truth Laid Bare: The Marriage of Sex, Money, Tech and Power
Sex, money, tech and power. OnlyFans, a social media platform created to share explicit content against tips, finds a way to merge all four.
23. Innovation Is Slowing Down
Innovation is a critical driver of economic growth and societal progress. But worryingly, tech innovation has been slowing for decades.
24. "We Are Rich Because We Are Free." - How Society Creates Entrepreneurs
An economic perspective on how society allows a social contract to build entrepreneurs.
25. The Tech Industry is a Balancing Act Between Two Value Systems: Cash and Humanity
Tech is a balancing act between two value systems (cash and humanity) and it can never not be. Here's why:
26. How Humanity’s Need to Be Certain Is Holding Us Back from Evolving Our Society
As I get older, something that becomes abundantly clear is that no one has any clue what the hell is going on.
27. On the Infestation of Small-Souled Bugmen
Bugmen are what we get when a culture is infantilized and stripped of the very intellectual, philosophical and honourable fibre that once made it great.
28. ”Money Doesn’t Equal Happiness” - Reality of Hackers’ Life
Hackers are also ordinary people who fear, worry, and feel ashamed of their atrocities
29. Six Ways to Change Your Thinking About ChatGPT
When we’ve said it all, there may be a lot left unsaid
30. The Precariat: A New Social Phenomenon
The precariat is a class of socially unsettled people who do not have full guaranteed employment.
31. What Sociologists Are Saying About 2020's Myriad Political Movements
2020 has been a hotbed of political and social debates. Curious, I got out my python script, scraped some academic data and set out to find what the Sociologists are talking about in September 2020.
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