Over the past few decades, loneliness has reached almost epidemic levels, with men uniquely suffering its effects. How and why has isolation become such a threat?
What this means is that even more than it is in the advertising business, Facebook is in the surveillance business. Facebook, in fact, is the biggest surveillance-based enterprise in the history of mankind. It knows far, far more about you than the most intrusive government has ever known about its citizens. It's amazing that people haven't really understood this about the company. I've spent time thinking about Facebook, and the thing I keep coming back to is that its users don't realise what it is the company does. What Facebook does is watch you, and then use what it knows about you and your behaviour to sell ads. I'm not sure there has ever been a more complete disconnect between what a company says it does – 'connect', 'build communities' – and the commercial reality.
[A Pew Research Center survey] found that with the exception of college or military service, 37 percent of Americans had never lived outside their hometown, and 57 percent had never lived outside their home state.
Mobility has fallen drastically in several decades.
How America's infatuation with World War II has eroded our conscience.
"The economic base has shifted in a way that highly favors cities — and big cities — because it's now based on knowledge, on idea exchange, on agglomeration," said Mark Muro, the policy director of the Metropolitan Policy Program at the Brookings Institution.
With "Areas of Interest", Google has a feature that Apple doesn't have. But it's unclear if Apple could add this feature to its map in the near future.
Google is using its data sets to create data in a way that puts it far ahead of its competitors. A great explanation and set of visuals about how this works.
[F]or those who cherish American constitutional democracy, what matters is the effect on America and her people and her standing in an increasingly unstable world - made all the more unstable by these very fabrications. What matters is the daily disassembling of our democratic institutions. We are a mature democracy – it is well past time that we stop excusing or ignoring – or worse, endorsing - these attacks on the truth. For if we compromise the truth for the sake of our politics, we are lost.
— Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.)
"Pain that is not allowed to be spoken or expressed turns in on itself, and creates more problems. Unacknowledged and unheard pain doesn't go away. The way to survive grief is by allowing pain to exist, not in trying to cover it up or rush through it."
There is beauty in the emptiness of loss, because loss means I have loved.
— Lisa Leonard, "It Was Beautiful"
As we continue to grow and plan for the future, Microsoft is modernizing our workplaces in all regions where we do business. In Silicon Valley, we are creating our smartest, greenest office yet.
So excited to see this come to fruition and proud to work for a company investing in such great concepts for employees and the environment. Don't miss the details behind our net-zero water usage goal.