These photos of the U.S.-Mexico border show that reality is very different from the rhetoric

April 26, 2019 Good morning! I still remember the first time I used Uber. I was on the high hills of San Francisco after midnight. Neither a cab nor a trolly was in sight. So I loaded the app, hit a button, and a car pulled up to me a few minutes later. It was then that I knew, everything had changed. I felt the same way when I tried Dreams earlier this week. With the press of a button, I hopped from playing a Super Mario Bros clone, to standing in a model of Van Gogh’s bedroom, to running from monsters in a haunted mansion, to sitting on the porcelain throne in a toilet simulator. Technically, Dreams is an upcoming video game for Playstation 4, but it really isn’t a video game. It’s a game that lets you make games. Or music. Or 3D sculptures. Or little Pixar-esque short films. And perhaps more importantly, it’s a game that allows users to surf through these rich, multimedia experiences as instantaneously as watching old cable TV. No apps. No load screens. You might not be a gamer yourself, but you should be paying attention to Dreams. Because it’s more than another video game; it’s a working prototype of the joy-filled internet of tomorrow. [Read my story here.]( —[Mark Wilson]( [Dreams is the most important new game in a decade]( [Dreams is the most important new game in a decade]( Dreams isn’t actually about dreaming, but it lets you create the stuff that dreams are made of. [These photos of the U.S.-Mexico border show that reality is very different from the rhetoric]( [These photos of the U.S.-Mexico border show that reality is very different from the rhetoric]( Photographer Elliot Ross and writer Genevieve Allison spent months depicting nearly all of the 2,000-mile border area. What they found is much more complicated than what you hear on the news. [Everything “Avengers: Endgame” gets right (and wrong) about time travel]( [Everything “Avengers: Endgame” gets right (and wrong) about time travel]( The film accurately calls out absurd time-traveling tropes in pop culture, but it also falls for the biggest time-traveling plot hole of them all. MINOR SPOILERS AHEAD. [The Wing is quietly building a design business]( [The Wing is quietly building a design business]( The coworking social club’s in-house team is expanding–and taking on projects outside of The Wing’s own spaces. [These two trendy interview practices need to stop]( [These two trendy interview practices need to stop]( No, offbeat questions don’t help you learn how someone will work under pressure. [Tech brings out the worst in us. What if it was designed to bring out the best?]( [Tech brings out the worst in us. What if it was designed to bring out the best?]( Tristan Harris, cofounder of the Center for Humane Technology, wants to push tech companies to rethink how they manipulate users. [5 Things casual Marvel fans should know before “Avengers: Endgame”]( [5 Things casual Marvel fans should know before “Avengers: Endgame”]( The Marvel Cinematic Universe is a dense tapestry of factoids. But you don’t need to watch 21 movies to wrap your head around it all. [A deleted Wikipedia page speaks volumes about its biggest problem]( [A deleted Wikipedia page speaks volumes about its biggest problem]( Clarice Phelps may have been the first African-American woman to help discover a chemical element. For Wikipedia, that wasn’t enough. [Joe Biden’s logo has a problem I can’t unsee]( [Joe Biden’s logo has a problem I can’t unsee]( Say it ain’t so, Joe. What’s going on with your logo? [Houston’s booming bike-share system is reshaping a car-centric city]( [Houston’s booming bike-share system is reshaping a car-centric city]( As Houston BCycle rapidly expands, the biggest jump in ridership has come from people swapping out car trips in favor of a bike–in a city where less than 7% of people walk, bike, or take transit to work. Share This Newsletter Did someone forward you this email? Subscribe [here!]( Like this email? Consider signing up for our other newsletters [here](. Too many emails? Update your subscription preferences [here](. No longer want to receive this newsletter? Unsubscribe [here](. Mansueto Ventures, 7 World Trade Center, New York, NY 10007-2195