Chinese pocket translator

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/610623/baidu-shows-off-its-instant-pocket-translator/

stem cell treatments

hearing loss
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/02/hearing-loss-drug-breakthroughs-attract-big-pharma-venture-capital.html

https://hsci.harvard.edu/hearing-loss-0

macular degeneration
http://www.bbc.com/news/health-43458365

All I want

I heard this song at the grocery store last night and what stood out was the one voice in the choral harmony holding the line in a low-note monotone.

But, when you isolate that one voice, there's an ironic contrast with the lyrics.

All I want is to feel this way. This way. Look at my expressionless face. 

One lonely Cylon centurion in soliloquy, shuffling through a sea of happy, babbling millennials wearing rainbow unicorn shirts and ironic mustaches, cackling 'I know, right?' 'LOL' 'OMG'. 

Reminds me of the old SNL sketch with Phil Hartman as Frankenstein, Kevin Nealon as Tarzan and Jon Lovitz as Tonto.

China AR smart glasses

LLVision
Cost in 2016: US$608
AR for telecom maintenance service:https://www.crunchfish.com/crunchfish-signs-agreement-ar-company-llvision-gesture-interaction-smart-glasses/ 'Tier 1 telecom infrastructure company in China where technicians use them while doing maintenance service'.
AR for surgery:http://www.scmp.com/tech/social-gadgets/article/1909187/through-looking-glxss-augmented-reality-dream-come-true-couriers
Security trackinghttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-parliament-surveillance/china-eyes-black-tech-to-boost-security-as-parliament-meets-idUSKBN1GM06MAt a highway check point on the outskirts of Beijing, local police are this week testing out a new security tool: smart glasses that can pick up facial features and car registration plates, and match them in real-time with a database of suspects. The AI-powered glasses, made by LLVision, scan the faces of vehicle occupants and the plates, flagging with a red box and warning sign to the wearer when any match up with a centralized "blacklist".

The test -- which coincides with the annual meeting of China's parliament in central Beijing -- underscores a major push by China's leaders to leverage technology to boost security in the country... Wu Fei, chief executive of LLVision, said people should not be worried about privacy concerns because China's authorities were using the equipment for "noble causes", catching suspects and fugitives from the law. "We trust the government," he told Reuters at the company's headquarters in Beijing.
This weekend while China's President Xi Jinping is expected to push through a reform allowing him to stay in power indefinitely, Reuters reports that the Chinese goverment is pushing the use of cutting-edge technology "to track and control behavior that goes against the interests of the ruling Communist Party online and in the wider world... A key concern is that blacklists could include a wide range of people stretching from lawyers and artists to political dissidents, charity workers, journalists and rights activists... 

"The new technologies range from police robots for crowd control, to drones to monitor border areas, and artificially intelligent systems to track and censor behavior online," Reuters reports, citing one Hong Kong researcher who argues that China now sees internet and communication technologies "as absolutely indispensable tools of social and political control."

Quill animation - Goro Fujita

https://www.roadtovr.com/oculus-artists-quill-shorts-show-incredible-potential-illustrating-animating-vr/

https://twitter.com/gorosart

https://www.facebook.com/goro.fujita/

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbTQ4StJhp1RDisqUTuJSZg

http://chapter-56.blogspot.com/

https://www.patreon.com/goro

https://gumroad.com/gorofujita

https://www.linkedin.com/in/gorofujita/

Lost in Space title sequence, Saul Bass title inspiration

http://www.criticalcommons.org/Members/ccManager/clips/lostinspacetitlesbinarykitsch.mp4/view

Article comment: A binary kitsch aesthetic combines with Saul Bass-style high contrast animation in the title sequence for Irwin Allen's Lost in Space

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_in_Space#Music

The open and closing theme music was written by John Williams...

Here are some videos about Saul Bass on youtube.

Here are some example compilations:

...and here are a few interview videos:

Yiddish theater origins

Notes from wiki

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yiddish_theatre

Purim plays – the skits performed by amateur companies around the time of the Purim holiday – were a significant early form of theatrical expression.^[3] Often satiric and topical, Purim plays were traditionally performed in the courtyard of the synagogue, because they were considered too profane to be performed inside the building. These made heavy use of masks and other theatrical devices; the masquerade (and the singing and dancing) generally extended to the whole congregation, not just a small set of players. While many Purim plays told the story in the Book of Esther commemorated by the Purim holiday, others used other stories from Jewish scripture, such as the story of Joseph sold by his brothers or the sacrifice of Isaac. Over time, these well-known stories became less a subject matter than a pretext for topical and satiric theatre. Mordechai became a standard role for a clown.^[6]

Purim plays were published as early as the early 18th century. At least eight Purim plays were published between 1708 and 1720; most of these do not survive (at least some were burned in autos da fe), but one survives in the Jüdische Merkwürdigkeiten (1714), a collection by Johann Jakob Schudt (1664–1722).^[7][8]

Additionally, there was a rich tradition of dialogues in the Jewish poetry known as Tahkemoni, dating back at least to Yehuda al-Harizi in 12th-century Spain. Al-Harizi's work contained dialogues between believer and heretic, man and wife, day and night, land and ocean, wisdom and foolishness, avarice and generosity. Such dialogues figured prominently in early Yiddish theatre.