https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/18/22430340/deepfake-dubs-dubbing-film-tv-flawless-startup They say they’re windows to the soul. They say they’re individual, unique, special. We look deeply into them when we’re in love or when we’re judging somebody’s truthfulness. Maybe that was why I always thought she has what used to be called ‘star quality’, that way with the camera. My streaming profile is full …
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Dispatch from an advertising future #160
https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/16/22388548/edward-snowden-nft-freedom-of-the-press-stay-free “If journalism is the art of today’s chip wrapper, then what is what we make?” she thought in her darker moments. She held on to purpose as a justification for why she’d ended up here and tried to convince herself it was popular cultural art but deep down she knew. It was all transient, …
Dispatch from an advertising future #159
https://interestingengineering.com/infrared-radiation-from-our-hands-could-be-the-future-of-encryption?utm_source=tldrnewsletter She looked at her hand, at the shelf. She remembered The During, when she’d feared to touch things, obsessively reaching for the hand sanitiser in her bag. It had been normal not to touch, to not run her fingers along the shelf as she chose, through the rack as she browsed as she’d done …
Dispatch from an advertising future #158
https://gizmodo.com/deep-nostalgia-can-now-make-old-photos-of-your-relati-1846620089 I didn’t mind when she smiled. We’d been apart for so long, catching her smile was a reminder of The Before. She’d always been there, her quiet hint of a smile was an acknowledgement, an encouragement. Having her picture on the shelf wasn’t the same as having her here but those little signals, they …
Dispatch from an advertising future #157
https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/brain-computer-interface-braingate-b1825971.html When we first hooked up, he was definitely in charge. He took the lead. He made the decisions and I was happy to follow. I saw my role as helping him, empowering him. There were things I could do that he couldn’t and my role in the relationship was to do those things I …
Dispatch from an advertising future #156
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/31/microsoft-wins-contract-to-make-modified-hololens-for-us-army.html By the end I even liked him. Respected him of course but maybe at some level a sense in which I saw him, if not as a friend, at least as someone I knew was there for me. It hadn’t started that way of course. I hated him. He hated me. He was straight …