https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-future-brain/202009/new-brain-computer-interface-transforms-thoughts-images They said he could think anything, imagine anywhere, dream whatever. They said something about really wanting to know how young people thought. It was much more fun than his previous job with them: watching ads. This was so much better he thought as he imagined the gig, the holocrowd going crazy, his solo so …
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Dispatch from an advertising future #115
https://digiday.com/future-of-work/clever-about-how-we-rest-as-uncertainties-drag-into-fall-agencies-are-facing-a-burnt-out-and-fearful-workforce/ She shouldn’t have watched. She knew it. And then she’d read the reports, got lost in the Storm. She didn’t join in, she just got soaked in it all. She should have logged off. She shouldn’t have gone there, she told herself. Now there was guilt as well as everything else. And now she …
Dispatch from an advertising future #114
https://www.theverge.com/2020/9/29/21492413/presidential-debate-trump-biden-watch-live-stream-date-time-cleveland He hoped the watch party had it. He’d got his hat, his badge and his homemade sign – quite witty he thought. The debates were important, not because he hoped they would change anyone’s minds but because they reaffirmed he was right. And since Clarify (™) streams became available, as they said: “Yes, we …
Dispatch from an advertising future #113
https://theconversation.com/dynamic-tattoos-promise-to-warn-wearers-of-health-threats-133040 Ever since Sits had gone mainstream as an early warning system for possible infection, they’d been hacked to warn of other things. The Blockers had got them to glow when you were in what they called an “unhealthy ad space”. The Hiders had them signal when your data was being siphoned. She read Sits, …
Dispatch from an advertising future #112
https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/09/24/1008882/facebook-ai-test-benchmark-people-break-adversarial/ He’d told her he had a job with “a big tech company”. She was so proud. He’d spent three years in his room: in lectures, tutorials, ‘socialising’ or whatever students did. She had wondered if the fees had been worth it. But now he had a job. She’d heard how much people could earn. …
Dispatch from an advertising future #111
https://www.theverge.com/2020/9/24/21454872/amazon-ring-always-home-cam-flying-drone-ad-demo The profiles were nearly complete. The different dimensions were in place. Shopping JDoe was catalogued. Consuming JDoe was captured. Emotional JDoe was measured. Moving JDoe was tracked. There was no need to worry about the JDoe office space as there had been in The Before. The JDoe home space was visualised. The various dimensions …