AR and privacy; The meta-what?; Decolonising the cosmos
Milk, No Sugar #303
💡Think
I spoke to a few colleagues this week who mentioned that they are finding it hard to be creative at the moment, and I can definitely relate.
We’re reaching that point of the year (wait, isn’t it always like this?) where targets are tightening before the holiday season, and you’re finding less and less time to “be creative”.
What I usually do in this situation is to lean back on what I already know. What do I know that…just works?
I use this particularly on social media – hello, viral tweets – but just this afternoon I was designing a new app for a client and relied on some tried and tested design patterns rather than trying to reinvent the wheel.
Rely on what you know.
📷 Look
📖 Read
❶ AR: the next big privacy crisis
Have you used AR or VR recently? No me neither, but wasn’t this supposed to be “the thing” by now – Snapchat (or Snap) is a decade old. It turns out that there are businesses working on ways to – when it eventually becomes the norm – advertise within these spaces. Isn’t that frightening? Imagine having a chat with someone whilst wearing fancy smart glasses and an advert for what you just said appears on the lens.
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❷ The Metaverse Is simply Big Tech, but bigger
Given that this -verse thing is now seemingly here to stay, it’s probably a good idea we got ahead of it and learned what the impact is going to be on us. “The next internet” is a little abstract, but in reality it’s going to be a space where digital and physical are seemingly interoperable, or the same. On the surface, that’s bonkers. In reality, probably the same. This article takes us through how this was first attempted in the 2000s, but we might just be ready for it now.
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❸ Decolonising the cosmos
You guessed it, those companies vying to be the first to offer flights to Mars are also buckling up to colonise the space. What does this mean? Mineral abstraction and land ownership mostly, but it ultimately means that we’re staring into the barrel of our past; only on a different planet. This long read navigates into the deep (not sorry) of what the future of space ownership looks like, and who may own it.
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Bonus round
A lovely little collection of posters called the “Women of Soviet art”
A funny for you designers:
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AI and bias
Did you know that in order for Google to return the correct image, with context, of what you’re searching for, it basically required people to manually train programs? For example, searching “baby” will return a baby human, rather than dog, cat, or whatever. Behind the scenes of tech are humans and these humans are defining our digital reality. With this comes issues with bias, because for a more serious example – how would you define what a criminal looks like? Think about that for a second.
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Luis Ouriach
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