https://www.techradar.com/news/future-iphone-health-tracking-could-detect-depression-anxiety-and-cognitive-decline Future iPhone health tracking could detect depression, anxiety, and cognitive decline I’m trying to work. Sorry, I need to get this done. Of course I care and I’ll do something about it but… I need to focus on this. Just give me a few more minutes to send this one. Yes, yes, I know …
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Dispatch from an advertising future #193
https://digiday.com/marketing/why-companies-are-using-virtual-concerts-to-introduce-their-users-to-the-metaverse/ Why companies are using virtual concerts to introduce their users to the metaverse The company picnic was always a highlight… that’s what the newsletter said. Part team-building exercise; part CSR, part Instagrammable moments set-up, this year’s event would be special, we are told. After the years of Zoom events, it would be great to …
Dispatch from an advertising future #191
https://digiday.com/marketing/sliding-door-moments-how-will-hybrid-working-trend-affect-office-romances/ ‘Sliding door moments’: How will hybrid working trend affect office romances? How did I meet your mother? It was during The Fourth Great Lockdown. It was all new then. In The Before people had travelled to buildings to work but then the First Great Pandemic hit and everything changed. I worked in a first …
Dispatch from an advertising future #188
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/sep/08/study-finds-growing-government-use-of-sensitive-data-to-nudge-behaviour Study finds growing government use of sensitive data to ‘nudge’ behaviour They keep saying we’ve “missed out”. There must be some master timetable somewhere that says “this has to be learned on the third Tuesday in February.” When we didn’t have a class on that third Tuesday, all hell broke loose. They said there’d …
Dispatch from an advertising future #171
https://digiday.com/marketing/google-switch-floc-cookie-replacement-fingerprinting-potential/ We make a big thing of it in my family. The Choosing. To be honest I don’t get to choose, it’s a family thing. Topics are passed down in our family and woe betide you if you try and pick something outside. “Tradition”, I’m reminded. We have this lame ceremony thing where I have …
Dispatch from an advertising future #170
https://www.campaignlive.com/article/youtube-launches-shorts-campaign-compete-tiktok/1724457 They’d got used to textspeak. Even those strange little pictures she’d added to everything, they’d learned to read them. A different language but they’d picked it up. They’d had to if they were going to “follow” her. And as parents, that was their responsibility. It wasn’t spying, it was following. But this was new. …