Monday’s Must Read List

Each week, I publish a list of interesting articles, essays and reports that may be of interest to the digital diplomacy community. This week-

1. Floppy disks in Japan: Minister declares war on old-fashioned technology (BBC News)
2. How Queen Elizabeth embraced new technologies during her reign (National Geographic)
3. Russians will be able to buy the iPhone 14 (CNN)
4. Roblox’s avatars are about to get more expressive (MIT Technology Review)
5. A Smartphone That Lasts a Decade? Yes, It’s Possible. (The New York Times)
6. The tech industry needs a labor movement (TechCrunch)
7. Elon Musk sends yet another notice trying to terminate the Twitter deal (The Verge)
8. These Chinese stocks can benefit if the metaverse takes off (CNBC)
9. Teens still love Snapchat. But its business is struggling to grow up. (The Washington Post)

Some light reading- Elizabeth the Queen: The Life of a Modern Monarch, by Sally Bedell Smith