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Weekend Reads March 26, 2021

Welcome to Lowercase Weekend Reads. Our weekend reads highlight the most important articles of the week.

Patents and the Common Good — The New Atlantis

Very good analysis on the incentives at play between private enterprise and the common good. 

Atomic Tree – Emergence Magazine

This is a fascinating video and story. Also big fan of this magazine.

From AI to Zoom: How the Covid-19 pandemic permanently changed remote work

Interesting take of the future of work after the pandemic. I do not agree with all of it but things will change for sure. 

Islands in the Stream

“Like so many sectors of our economy, government inaction has allowed the music business to consolidate, with devastating effects on musicians.”

‘We are seeing a crisis in values’ – an extract from Mark Carney’s book

“We are living Oscar Wilde’s aphorism – knowing the price of everything but the value of nothing – at incalculable costs to our society, to future generations and to our planet."