https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/10/07/1009499/telepath-wants-to-enforce-kindness-can-that-ever-work/ The doctor had prescribed it after the last ‘episode’. His band had alerted his employer who had passed it on. When he was called in, he was ‘offered’ it. They said it was better than drugs, but he knew it was a money thing. He didn’t have a choice so he joined. He had … [Read more…]
https://www.vox.com/the-goods/21459677/tiktok-house-la-hype-sway-girls-in-the-valley Dear Mum. Don’t worry, I’m here. I told you it would be OK. I was right about this place. It’s amazing. The decorations are crazy, they look so good on camera. There’s mad furniture, a gym and I get to pick how my room looks and they just sort it. And the equipment? There’s … [Read more…]
https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidbressan/2020/09/30/for-the-first-time-scientists-successfully-extract-dna-from-insects-embedded-in-tree-resin/#656df17f1445 Some remembered that day, when the legislation hit and server farms were powered down. Stories were still told of the powerful algorithms that had roamed the world. Kids had toys. There’d been films, documentaries and VR reconstructions. But they were extinct, apart from a few bits. They were just tiny fragments. They had been preserved … [Read more…]
https://adage.com/article/special-report-40-under-40/ad-ages-list-40-people-under-age-40-shaping-marketing-media-and-agency-industries/2285111 I’d like to thank all those who made this possible. We’re a youth-centred industry but there are many older colleagues without whom I would not be on this awards call today. I’ve been lucky to work for some of the greats in the industry, real Ad Men and Ad Women who knew the job … [Read more…]
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-future-brain/202009/new-brain-computer-interface-transforms-thoughts-images They said he could think anything, imagine anywhere, dream whatever. They said something about really wanting to know how young people thought. It was much more fun than his previous job with them: watching ads. This was so much better he thought as he imagined the gig, the holocrowd going crazy, his solo so … [Read more…]
https://digiday.com/future-of-work/clever-about-how-we-rest-as-uncertainties-drag-into-fall-agencies-are-facing-a-burnt-out-and-fearful-workforce/ She shouldn’t have watched. She knew it. And then she’d read the reports, got lost in the Storm. She didn’t join in, she just got soaked in it all. She should have logged off. She shouldn’t have gone there, she told herself. Now there was guilt as well as everything else. And now she … [Read more…]
https://www.theverge.com/2020/9/29/21492413/presidential-debate-trump-biden-watch-live-stream-date-time-cleveland He hoped the watch party had it. He’d got his hat, his badge and his homemade sign – quite witty he thought. The debates were important, not because he hoped they would change anyone’s minds but because they reaffirmed he was right. And since Clarify (™) streams became available, as they said: “Yes, we … [Read more…]
https://theconversation.com/dynamic-tattoos-promise-to-warn-wearers-of-health-threats-133040 Ever since Sits had gone mainstream as an early warning system for possible infection, they’d been hacked to warn of other things. The Blockers had got them to glow when you were in what they called an “unhealthy ad space”. The Hiders had them signal when your data was being siphoned. She read Sits, … [Read more…]
https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/09/24/1008882/facebook-ai-test-benchmark-people-break-adversarial/ He’d told her he had a job with “a big tech company”. She was so proud. He’d spent three years in his room: in lectures, tutorials, ‘socialising’ or whatever students did. She had wondered if the fees had been worth it. But now he had a job. She’d heard how much people could earn. … [Read more…]
https://www.theverge.com/2020/9/24/21454872/amazon-ring-always-home-cam-flying-drone-ad-demo The profiles were nearly complete. The different dimensions were in place. Shopping JDoe was catalogued. Consuming JDoe was captured. Emotional JDoe was measured. Moving JDoe was tracked. There was no need to worry about the JDoe office space as there had been in The Before. The JDoe home space was visualised. The various dimensions … [Read more…]