Worldless places; Chaos theory; Posthumans
Issue #369
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Hey everyone,
Iām many, many weeks late, but something that I havenāt stopped thinking about since Appleās released their new iPads isā¦hey, they arenāt a product company. They are a marketing company, convincing you that marginal improvements are worth thousands of dollars, every single year.
Since then, I havenāt been able to stop looking at every company like this, and itās hurting my brain. Are you genuinely offering a service, or squeezing the lemon for every last drop?
As people in the tech industry, we all have a central desire to offer great user experiences, offer life changing solutions to users, and try to make a positive dent. But perhaps thatās all a facade.
Iām feelingā¦positive š¤£
Have a great week!
Luis
š· Look
š Read
ā¶ Worldless Places And The Reality Of Fictions
This is a pretty dense philosophical analysis of capitalismās ability to be a universal truth yet have no distinct meaning. It is culture-less, yet accommodates every culture. It is/was the beginning of the future and the end of everything we knew to be unique. It goes into way more depth than this, but this is enough of a taste.
ā· Chaos and cause: Science, or a butterflyās wing
Would you say a roulette wheel is predictable? Probably not, but assuming the butterfly effect is accurate, wouldnāt the conditions of the spin be something maths could solve? Putting Isaac Newtonās laws against John Keatsā mystery, this article looks at chaos theory and tries to understand whether itās actually true or not.
āø Are the posthumans here yet?
As in, robot humans? Yes. Apparently the first person to get a chip implant happened inā¦1998! They can control lights and doors, which is perhaps a little underwhelming. This is a short article, but a look into the future, which a lot of people are very willing to embark on.
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Bonus round
Can everyone kindly shut up about AI
š§ Listen
Should this creepy search engine exist?
Facial recognition isnāt new, and none of us would be surprised to know how big a business it is in the security (or tracking?) space. But, there are rafts of search engines swimming into view that take it even further.
One in particular, discussed in this podcast, has indexed so much of the internet that it can identify you in photos you didnāt even know you were in. For example, the background of other peopleās photos shared at cafes, gigs, or just in the street. Weāre not safe!
Whatās creepier, is that this one in particular was developed almost entirely by a single person working out of public cafes.
Listen to this podcast (60 minutes)
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Have a great week,
@disco_lu