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This Week’s Cartoons: March 9-13, 2020

Antisocial at the amusement park.
Cartoon of man on phone in boat going into tunnel of likes at amusement park

Friday, March 13, 2020. By Mick Stevens, with cartooncollections.com. Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube have moved to hide or obscure likes. Would that make the internet healthier?

Cartoon of aliens in underwear at office. One tells human officeworker We thought it would help distract you from our...

Thursday, March 12, 2020. By P. C. Vey, with cartooncollections.com. SETI@Home is coming to an end this month, but the world’s greatest extraterrestrial hunt is far from finished.

Cartoon with bot icon popping up to say Hi there Can I help explain this cartoon to you

Wednesday, March 11, 2020. By Benjamin Schwartz, with cartooncollections.com. A social network populated entirely by adoring bots aims to mimic the experience of being a celebrity online—trolls not included.

Cartoon of mega yacht with businessman in front saying can you believe my kids are still saying I'm not doing anything...

Tuesday, March 10, 2020. By Ivan Ehlers, with cartooncollections.com. Seawalls, parks, and elevated buildings can protect against rising tides. But they can also hasten “green gentrification,” pushing housing prices up and residents out.

Cartoon of robot scanning man's face but crossing arms and looking away while woman says The AI recognizes your face but...

Monday, March 9, 2020. By Jeremy Nguyen, with cartooncollections.com. Sixty years ago, a sharecropper’s son invented a technology to identify faces. Then the record of his role all but vanished.

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