Month: August 2020

Dispatch from an advertising future #73

https://voicebot.ai/2020/07/31/this-fashion-tech-pioneer-is-animating-face-masks-with-voice-responsive-leds/ The rich had ad-free masks, the poor were hacking them and running #notonmyface slogans. Even those campaigns that were running weren’t effective. Evidence showed people had rediscovered eye contact. The Public Private Health Partnerships programme had ensured universal access to masks but the Department was worried as the agency gave its report. Brands still … [Read more…]

Dispatch from an advertising future #72

https://appleinsider.com/articles/20/07/30/apple-glass-users-may-be-able-to-manipulate-ar-images-with-any-real-object He’d never touched plastic. They’d been Hyggists before he’d been born. They’d seen simulations of child-raising during The Waste. Landfill mountains of the discarded paraphernalia of growing up… the toys! They’d read Speck’s Sustainable Sense Book of Baby and Child Care. Their family trod gently. So, on his birthday he got a block. Bamboo. … [Read more…]