Dear members—
On Monday, I shared that your favorite field guides of the past year centered around three themes: the industries of the future, the race against climate change, and the changing geography of influence. Those topics showed up again when I reviewed the videos and presentations you most enjoyed. Oh, and you’re into speed reading.
Here are some of the most popular member-exclusive videos and presentations that you enjoyed over the past year:
QUARTZ PRESENTS
What jobs will people have in 30 years? In this presentation, Dasia Moore, Dan Kopf, and Heather Landy break down the major trends changing work and share the fields that are expected to grow fastest. The future of work, they report, is in health care and personal services. Read Quartz’s presentation on the jobs of the future.
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BECAUSE CHINA
If you haven’t watched Because China, our member-exclusive series that just finished its second season, now is a great time to get started with the first episode of season one, all about how China is forcing the world to rethink recycling. For decades, wealthy countries exported the majority of their used plastic to China to be recycled. Then, in 2017, China banned the import of plastic waste, throwing the recycling industry into a scramble. Watch the first episode of Because China, on the global market for recycling.
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- The future of electric cars is happening now in China
- China’s wealthier citizens are taking full advantage of Greece’s “Golden Visa”
EXCEPTIONAL HUMANS
Researchers long thought that speed reading was bogus—though that didn’t stop lots of people from trying to learn how to do it. But, as Quartz’s Michael Tabb reports in Exceptional Humans, our original series for members, some people certainly read faster than others and researchers now say speed reading is very possible—we’re just doing it wrong. Watch the Exceptional Humans episode on speed reading.
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- The rare trait that may hold the secret to having a better memory
- What we can learn from people who hardly need any sleep
With best wishes for a restful end of the year,
Walter Frick
Membership editor, Quartz