{"id":4059,"date":"2018-09-29T13:58:53","date_gmt":"2018-09-29T11:58:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/?p=4059"},"modified":"2018-09-29T13:58:53","modified_gmt":"2018-09-29T11:58:53","slug":"no-tech-reader-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/2018\/09\/no-tech-reader-21.html","title":{"rendered":"No Tech Reader #21"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/the-problem-with-reinforced-concrete-56078\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>The Problem with Reinforced Concrete<\/strong><\/a>. Putting steel inside concrete ruins its potentially great durability.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.deanabbott.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>The Quieter Life<\/strong><\/a>. Adopting traditional values, attitudes and practices in an increasingly nihilistic world.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/theecologist.org\/2018\/sep\/24\/cool-peoples-movements-why-air-conditioners-arent-good-enough-working-class\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Cool People&#8217;s Movements<\/strong><\/a>. Let&#8217;s not confuse &#8216;the right to be cool&#8217; with the right to a consumer good.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/cities\/2018\/sep\/18\/paradise-life-spanish-city-banned-cars-pontevedra?CMP=share_btn_tw\"><strong>Life in the Spanish City that Banned Cars<\/strong><\/a>. In Pontevedra, the usual soundtrack of a Spanish city has been replaced by the tweeting of birds and the chatter of humans.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/2018\/09\/solar-panels-replaced-tarmac-on-a-motorway-here-are-the-results\/\"><strong>Solar Panels Replaced Tarmac on a Motorway. Here are the Results<\/strong><\/a>. Several factors work against this oddly popular idea.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2018\/sep\/23\/opec-predicts-massive-rise-in-oil-production-over-next-five-years\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Opec Predicts Massive Rise in Oil Production over Next Five Years<\/strong><\/a>. Increasing demand from airlines will more than offset reductions from electric cars.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/voices\/plastic-waste-wish-recycling-bins-black-environment-green-shopping-a8548736.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Everything You&#8217;ve Been Told about Plastic is Wrong<\/strong><\/a>. Recycling is the grown-up version of squeezing our eyes shut, sticking our fingers in our ears and shouting \u201clalalalalala!\u201d.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/2018\/09\/12\/why-growth-cant-be-green\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Why Growth Can\u2019t Be Green<\/strong><\/a>. New data proves you can support capitalism or the environment\u2014but it\u2019s hard to do both.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2018\/09\/05\/consumer_ai_ifa_2018_roundup\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>I&#8217;ve Seen the Future of Consumer AI, and it Doesn&#8217;t Have One<\/strong><\/a>. If ever there was a solution looking for a problem, it&#8217;s ramming AI into gadgets to show off a company&#8217;s machine learning prowess.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2018-09-18\/china-social-credit-a-model-citizen-in-a-digital-dictatorship\/10200278\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Leave no Dark Corner<\/strong><\/a>. China is building a digital dictatorship to exert control over its 1.4 billion citizens.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>First two links via\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wrathofgnon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wrath of Gnon<\/a><\/strong>. Last link via <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/user3946359\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">John Butler<\/a><\/strong>. Penultimate link via <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/m.slashdot.org\/story\/345542\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Slashdot<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Problem with Reinforced Concrete. Putting steel inside concrete ruins its potentially great durability. The Quieter Life. Adopting traditional values, attitudes and practices in an increasingly nihilistic world. Cool People&#8217;s Movements. Let&#8217;s not confuse &#8216;the right to be cool&#8217; with the right to a consumer good. Life in the Spanish City that Banned Cars. In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[313],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4059"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4059"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4062,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4059\/revisions\/4062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}