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But I can’t help thinking about something Heather’s sister told me after she died: she said that she would do anything for a recording of Heather’s voice. Heather’s voicemail was just the standard robot voice reading back her number. Planning for our deaths is not just about our “legacies” but for the sake of all the people we leave behind.
I spent the last 6 months planning my online death | Fusion
Masking one’s insides behind one’s outsides—once the essential task of human social life—was becoming a strenuous, suspect undertaking; why not, like my teenage acquaintance, just quit the fight? Surveillance and data mining presuppose that there exists in us a hidden self that can be reached through probing and analyses that are best practiced on the unaware, but what if we wore our whole beings on our sleeves? Perhaps the rush toward self-disclosure precipitated by social media was a preemptive defense against intruders: What’s freely given can’t be stolen. Interiority on Planet X‑Ray is a burden that’s best shrugged off, not borne. My teenage friend was onto something. Become a bright, flat surface. Cast no shadow.
How to Protect Your Personal Data—and Humanity—From the Government - The Atlantic
The gun show was not about weaponry, primarily, but about autonomy—construed in this case as the right to stand one’s ground against an arrogant, intrusive new order whose instruments of suppression and control I’d seen for myself the night before. There seemed to be no rational response to the feelings of powerlessness stirred by the cybernetic panopticon; the choice was either to ignore it or go crazy, at least to some degree. With its coolly planar architecture, the data center projected a stern indifference to the qualms that its presence inevitably raised. It practically dared one to take up arms against it, a Goliath that roused the instinct to grab a slingshot. The assault rifles and grenade launchers (I handled one, I hope for the last time) for sale were props in a drama of imagined resistance in which individuals would rise up to defend themselves. The irony was that preparing for such a fight in the only way these people knew how—by plotting their countermoves and hoarding ammo—played into the very security concerns that the overlords use to justify their snooping. The would-be combatants in this epic conflict were more closely linked, perhaps, than they appreciated.
How to Protect Your Personal Data—and Humanity—From the Government - The Atlantic
The situation reminded me that the ferreting-out of secrets is merely one purpose of surveillance; it also disciplines, inhibits, robbing interactions of spontaneity and turning them into self-conscious performances. The Firestone employees, with their smiles and good manners, had the same forced cheerfulness I’d long ago noticed in my Facebook feed, a parallel universe of marriage announcements and birthday well-wishes straight out of the Midwestern 1950s. Both were miniature versions, it occurred to me, of the society we’d all soon inhabit—or already did but had yet to fully acknowledge.
How to Protect Your Personal Data—and Humanity—From the Government - The Atlantic
Add to this the fact that all neural networks are inherently biased by the information relevent to their creators, and AI•Scry can pop out some absurd results. On this topic, co-founder Tara Shi tells The Creators Project, “The image database that our neural net is trained on, Microsoft COCO, specifically features objects that a 4-year-old could recognize. As a result, it sees a lot of dogs, donuts, bananas, and cell phones in weird places.
We Got an Artificial Neural Network to Name Random Objects in the VICE Office and It Did OK | The Creators Project
The trouble, as Graham points out, is that “unless the rate at which social antibodies evolve can increase to match the accelerating rate at which technological progress throws off new addictions, we’ll be increasingly unable to rely on customs to protect us.” In other words, if we don’t build social antibodies, the disease of distraction will become the new normal. But how do we develop and spread social antibodies to inoculate ourselves against bad mobile manners?
How to politely ask people to get the f*ck off their phones | TechCrunch
"We have five senses, and we have to use all of them to interact with smart technology," Amit says. "And the real difficulty, when we’re designing these projects now, is to find the right blend, and allow people enough flexibility to adapt to their comfort level. Hybridization is the challenge we have now. We have all of these technologies; how do you put the right combination together?"
The Next Big Tech Revolution Will Be In Your Ear | Co.Design | business + design
"With the Apple Watch, I’m addressing a machine. I’m talking to a thing on my wrist. While it’s got a Dick Tracy-like schtick to it, it is still a very specific invocation of a function," says Mark Rolston, former CCO of Frog and founder of Argodesign. "Whereas, talking to myself, and having a ghost, angel, or devil on my shoulder, is a much more, I don’t know—it has deeper psychological implications, the idea that there is someone else in my head."
The Next Big Tech Revolution Will Be In Your Ear | Co.Design | business + design
Having a 24/7 service there for someone who is afraid to speak up to have an exchange on a safe, anonymous basis in a medium they’re comfortable with is a tremendous advance. Every older adult should give every younger adult that number and make sure it’s in their phones.”
For Teens in Crisis, the Next Text Could Be a Lifesaver - The New York Times
No, the new scarcity in the internet age is attention. Since there is a surplus of information, more information flowing through our society than any of us could ever hope to process or understand, the new bottleneck on our economy is attention. We now live in an attention-based economy.
We live in a future where our attention is cheaply sold - Quartz
Modern technology isn’t changing us. It’s changing society. There’s a difference. One is how we are, and one is simply how we react every day to the world around us. The social media age is changing the basic economics of our day-to-day lives. It’s changing them in profound ways, ways that most of us likely don’t notice. And surprisingly, it’s people like Kim Kardashian who are taking advantage of it.
We live in a future where our attention is cheaply sold - Quartz
Despite Facebook’s best attempts to court so-called influencers, Twitter is still the go-to place for politicians, business leaders, athletes, and Kanye West to make important announcements. When West publicly asked Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to give him $1 billion, did he make the request on Facebook? Nope—he tweeted it. (See above.) Tony Effik, vice president of media and connections at ad agency R/GA, says buying ads on Twitter works great for reaching prominent professionals and leaders who drive public debates. The scale may not be there, he says, but the influence is.
How Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey Plans to Fix the Company - Fortune
Political Lace starts a discussion through its visual nature—the wearer would stand out in virtually any situation or location with the piece. When strangers ask about the nature of the piece, it creates a way for the wearer to discuss an ethical and political issue in an unexpected way.
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Neha Chauhan Woodward created the series of seven dolls to battle the emphasis of most dolls on appearance. Realizing the need for more complex and diverse dolls, Woodward teamed up with writer Molly Donovan to create background stories for each character.
These Feminist Dolls Offer Girls More Diverse Narratives
This wearable doesn’t measure your heartbeat, it won't track your position and we most definitely wont count any calories! The pin does one thing – it enhances your personality. It’s an accessory that lets you wear any of your favourite artists, designer or illustrator on your collar, clothes, bags or anywhere. Based on the mood you are currently in.
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And when you are matched with someone, it lets you chat with that person, but at first, only shows you a fuzzed-out version of their Facebook profile pic. You can choose to reveal your names and photos to each other if the chat goes well, so the app’s motto is, “Flirt first, reveal later.”
Meet Twine, the dating app that doesn’t care how hot you are | Gigaom
Over the past nine years, Eddie recalled, his life has become interwoven with theirs. “People outside my race, age range, and blood family have become the people who are closest to me,” he said.
For Vulnerable Teenagers, a Web of Support - The New York Times