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Adam Kenner

YouTube - AT&T 1993-1994 'You Will' Ad Campaign Compilation - All 7 Ads - 0 views

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media culture advertising at&t future prediction

shared by Adam Kenner on 12 Jan 11 - No Cached
  • Adam Kenner on 12 Jan 11
     
    AT&T predicts the hyperconnected screen-based future back in 1993-94.
Adam Kenner

SXSW 2011: The internet is over | Technology | The Guardian - 0 views

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media culture internet technology everything

shared by Adam Kenner on 15 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • everything and everyone in the world casts an 'information shadow', an aura of data
  • credit card companies can predict with 98% accuracy, two years in advance, when a couple is going to divorce, based on spending patterns alone
  • His take on the education system, for example, is that it is a badly designed game: students compete for good grades, but lose motivation when they fail. A good game, by contrast, never makes you feel like you've failed: you just progress more slowly. Instead of giving bad students an F, why not start all pupils with zero points and have them strive for the high score?
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  • "The end state of connectivity," he argues, "is that it provides citizens with increased power."
  • Adam Kenner on 15 Mar 11
     
    This is the fundamental obstacle to understanding where technology culture is heading: increasingly, it's about everything.
  • Adam Kenner on 15 Mar 11
     
    This is the fundamental obstacle to understanding where technology culture is heading: increasingly, it's about everything.
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