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Mobile Minutes: Internet culture; Amazon automation; WhatsApp patches flaws; Twitter hack

One secret to longevity as a pundit is to issue predictions that can’t be easily checked. So here’s one for the time capsule: Two hundred years from now, give or take, the robot-people of Earth will look back on the early years of the 21st century as the beginning of a remarkable renaissance in art and culture.
Read more at New York Times

Amazon: Automation doesn’t have to kill jobs
From South by Southwest, Amazon’s vice president of innovation talks workers, drones and flops.
Read more at CNET