[nonostantement #96] - empty brain / italian graphic design 1930s / neural network and nike
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How Airbnb Profits From Our Love of Experience
"As people begin to value 'things' less and 'doing stuff' more, Airbnb has simultaneously personalized and commoditized the food-related experience"The empty brain
"Your brain does not process information, retrieve knowledge, or store memories. In short: Your brain is not a computer."Italian Graphic Design 1930s
"This is a virtual online gallery I've created to display and share the best items in my collection of 1920s and 1930s travel-related ephemera. It is not my whole collection, just a portion."[Video] - AI & KENNEDY - A Nike commercial generated by a neural network
"[...] I fed a neural network a decade’s worth of Nike commercials to see if it could write something original and inspiring."Richie Hawtin releases CLOSER mobile phone app
"The app allows users to deconstruct Hawtin's performances—in both live streams and archival sets—and view them from different angles."In the 2010s, BuzzFeed Made the World a Meme
"I think that scared Facebook a little bit, that there could be a publisher that promotes a piece of content that then their algorithm feels like it needs to show to everyone in the world. Today, there’s a fear of viral content — you see this in China to an even greater extent. The Chinese government is very afraid of things that go viral, because it’s something that they can’t control."
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