“Teasing fans with tidbits, creating a sense of mystery and letting Internet buzz do the marketing circumvents the critics and the major media outlets that used to set the agenda.”
Category: ideas
Digitally Engaged Adults Need New Family Togetherness Furniture
“They’d prefer to work on soul-restoring sofas and cozy chaises specifically designed for mobile computing, in laid-back positions, integrated into family life–admittedly preoccupied, but in the general vicinity of their children, however madcap those offspring may be.”
Big Data Helps Musicians Find Their Matches
“Giggem’s algorithm analyzes the person’s profile and gives local suggestions for a band to join.”
The Return To Ghost Island – Funded By Crowdsourcing And Led By A Poet
“About 50 years ago, the threat of rock slides, the spread of tuberculosis and the loss of men to World War II forced residents to relocate to the mainland. King Island has been a ghost island ever since.” Will the visitors be able to find a thread of their identity?
Why Are Fan-Made Trailers So (Often) Much Better Than The Official Ones?
“There are piss-taking projects like Honest Trailers and Literal Trailers, which point out the hyperbole in a lot of movie promos; those done in the style of the Shining remix, which recut trailers to make them different than their actual genre; and supercuts, which collect every instance of a certain kind of cinematic moment into one video.”
When The Athletes And Parties Go Away, What Happens To An Olympics City?
Some cities do it right (Barcelona!), and some … well. Let’s just say Athens. So what’s the solution?
You Know What Really Leads To Creativity? Mistakes, Bad Planning, And Delusion
Malcolm Gladwell: “Creativity always comes as a surprise to us; therefore we can never count on it and we dare not believe in it until it has happened. … Hence, the only way in which we can bring our creative resources fully into play is by misjudging the nature of the task, by presenting it to ourselves as more routine, simple, undemanding of genuine creativity than it will turn out to be.”
The Problem With Tracing Art’s Human Evolution
“Every time evolutionary explanations attempt to cross from the antecedent causes of art to an understanding of its highest expressions and deepest nature, they stumble.”
Why Would We Want To Build A Super-Brain?
“When I ask myself, What’s the purpose of life?, I think a lot of it is figuring out how the world works. These machines will help us do that. Many, many years from now, we’ll be able to build machines that are super-physicists and super-mathematicians, and explore the universe. The idea that we could accelerate our accretion of knowledge is very exciting.”
A Different Way Of Thinking About The Internet Of Things
“While many of his colleagues are focused exclusively on the future, Heun constantly references our evolutionary past. Millions of years of biological development have given humans the ability to process information using all of our senses, but the last 30 years of technology advances have focused everything through our eyes and fingertips.”