Tag: Consumerism
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Outbrain, In Your Brain: If Dream-Hacking Is Coming, Advertisers Will Be Licking Their Lips
A friend sent me this TED talk the other day. It’s a really fascinating look into how (in very simplistic terms) neuroscience is beginning to ‘hack’ into our brains, and locate exactly where different thoughts are lodged. The presenter is funny, and tells a good story about how the BBC had latched onto one speculative…
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The Futures is Ours to Decide – It’s Time to Put Our Mouth Where Our Money Is.
A couple of months ago an esteemed educationalist – a Knight of the Realm no less – came to the school I teach in to do some training. One part of his remit was inviting us to think about the future of education, and he began by excitedly delivering a slick speech about how children…
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Car Park: a brutal symbol of a capitalist problem
I ended up on the 7th floor of a multi-story car park in Peckham this evening, at an event hosted by Bold Tendencies, which looked at the car parks from an architectural and anthropological point of view. One contributor made the point that the problem of car parking only became such as Henry Ford developed…
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Reflections on Apple2 : Heidegger : Technology
Excellent time at Apple2 last night. Alistair Duncan from The Garden kick-started proceedings with an introduction to Heidegger’s philosophical framework, and how this impacted his thinking on technology later on in his life after the scandals surrounding Nazism had died down a little. Though his later language is more poetry than hard logic, Heidegger is…