Wednesday assorted links
1. A science fiction look at Proust.
2. Contours of a third nuclear age.
3. Too many Americans live in a mental fog.
4. “Automation risk of US jobs drops from 38 to 9% when accounting for job-level tasks.”
5. What is up with the China-India scuffle? Keep an eye on this one. And why China won’t help with North Korea.