🧑🏭Japan proposes four-day working week to improve work-life balance: If there’s one thing the pandemic is bound to have changed it is the perception of our relationship with work. The future of work had been a concept largely discussed by C-suites mostly in an attempt to sell products. As a result of the pandemic, however, the future of work is increasingly looking like ways with which we can do less of it. In Japan— a country known for its harsh work culture—its leaders have been seeking ways to minimize effective working hours for a while. In the US many are fleeing jobs they feel are unfulfilling. In a world, with general technological progress, there is the perception that a lot of the work we do is rather useless. Hopefully, this pandemic has given us enough time to reevaluate our approach to the concept of work. (1059 words)
🧬First patient dosed in BioNTech Phase II trial of mRNA cancer vaccine: On another note, BioNtech is in phase two testing of a vaccine meant to tackle advanced melanoma. As I have without a doubt mentioned several times the effective use of mRNA during this crisis in the creation of the vaccine had proven itself the greatest breakthrough of this pandemic. A while back I had asked myself what technological progress had occurred due to this pandemic; progress that had otherwise gone on unseen. Today, and onward we realize the vast consequences this breakthrough has, among them the possible realization of an effective treatment for an illness that has made many a loved one suffer.(385 words)
👓Facebook will start putting ads in Oculus Quest apps: I remember many joking at the thought of ads in brain computing interfaces. Albeit that VR headsets aren’t Brain-Computing devices(yet). Facebook’s latest move to include them in applications in the headset is dystopic in a way I had not yet comprehended and may perhaps reveal to us a time in which ads are far more invasive than they are today. (849 words)
🏗️Sou Fujimoto Designs a Ethereal Tower of 99 Floating Islands: And to what is my favorite piece of news this week, the architect Sou Fujimoto has designed what could arguably be the most futuristic building to ever possibly exist; that is if it does get built. (201 words)
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