What is ‘Editor’s Pick’?
In the most precise editorial language, it is a selection of the week’s best articles, condensed and reviewed for our users. Is this section of any good when we already provide daily reads to our users? Well, it most definitely is. The articles featured here will add to your knowledge bank as well as help you become better readers. Happy reading!
Article 1: Picturing the Crisis
The author states that one of the ways that we remember crisis is by picturing them may it be the Great depression or the oil crisis of 1970s. But in this digital era, the recent recessions still remain invisible since the outward signs of economic pain are hard to capture. The foreclosure crisis images share a similar intensity. Taken from a helicopter or a satellite, they provide distant commentary on the over-development that fueled the crisis. The author ends the article by stating that the housing crisis is still to unfold.
Article 2: Communicating nothing in Particular
Young people today are constantly sending messages to each other, which according to the author is just a waste of time. Discussing the use of computers and the Internet at the Current affairs discussion Group, the non-users agreed to the fact that were in practice putting themselves at a disadvantage by holding out on not using one. One of the problems that came across was the case of ensuring the old-age methods of communication should still be available since it is important for everyone to have access to information. All in all, the author ends by saying that the letters are an epistolary example of exactly the sort of thing that people now criticize in Facebook and Twitter.
Article 3:6 Electronic devices you can control with your thoughts
The author begins the article by stating that the real dream is thinking about what you want your gadget to do likes the Brain-Computer interface. Devices based on the BCI principles are a fascinating glimpse of mind-machine merging mergers to come. These products are crude, imprecise and sometimes frustratingly non responsive. Similar is the case with EEG headsets, which pick up only the faintest electroencephalographic echoes of neural activity through the skull. The author has further illustrated some similar devices and their prices on Amazon
