‘Apple, Influence, and Ive’
Geweldig feature interview van horlogemagazine Hodinkee met Apple-designer Joni Ive. Niet enkel het gesprek, maar ook de pagina zelf: hoe de interviewer z’n gedachten tussen antwoorden erbij zet; hoe ze een klok tonen van hoe lang je het artikel aan het lezen bent en wat Apple in diezelfde tijd verkocht; het mooie (achterstevoren afspelende – […]
Podcast: ‘Hurry Slowly 029: Adam Greenfield – Phoning It In’
Aangeraden aflevering: Our smartphones have given us so much. The weather, news, calendars, email, photos and more — all in one place. But what are we sacrificing for this convenience?
‘Alexa and Siri Can Hear This Hidden Command. You Can’t.’
The New York Times: This month, some of those Berkeley researchers published a research paper that went further, saying they could embed commands directly into recordings of music or spoken text. So while a human listener hears someone talking or an orchestra playing, Amazon’s Echo speaker might hear an instruction to add something to your […]
‘And for His Next Act, Ev Williams Will Fix the Internet’
Kevin Roose van The New York Times zat samen met Ev Williams, de man achter Blogger, Twitter en Medium: But if Mr. Williams isn’t ready to denounce social media, he is at least muting its effects in his own life. He still uses Twitter, but he has turned off most mobile notifications, and he tries […]
Tech45 #386: Madonna heeft het nooit gevoeld
Nieuwe aflevering! In aflevering 386 hebben we het over ‘subscription hell’, messaging op Android, Twitter-paswoorden en we komen te weten of Toon zijn centen heeft gekregen.
‘I Tried Leaving Facebook. I Couldn’t’
Sarah Jeong bij The Verge: Of all people, I know why I shouldn’t trust Facebook, why my presence on its network contributes to the collective problem of its monopolistic hold on people. Everyone is on Facebook because everyone is on Facebook. And because everyone is on Facebook, even the people who aren’t are having their […]
‘The meaning of life in a world without work’
Yuval Noah Harari, auteur van het veelgeprezen boek ‘Sapiens’, in The Guardian met een gigantische doordenker van een opiniestuk: By 2050 a new class of people might emerge – the useless class. People who are not just unemployed, but unemployable. The same technology that renders humans useless might also make it feasible to feed and […]
‘Say Goodbye To The Information Age: It’s All About Reputation Now’
Fast Company: We are experiencing a fundamental paradigm shift in our relationship to knowledge. From the “information age,” we are moving towards the “reputation age,” in which information will have value only if it is already filtered, evaluated, and commented upon by others. Seen in this light, reputation has become a central pillar of collective […]
‘Fortnite is the biggest game on the planet right now because it’s a living, breathing world’
Fortnite is echt zwaar de max. De manier waarop ze de opbouw en lancering van seizoen 4 hebben aangepakt vond ik echt magistraal. Zo getuige ook dit artikel bij The Verge: Epic crafted a narrative for an online multiplayer game exclusively out of contextual clues, in-game hints, and other forms of environmental storytelling. The end […]
‘Time Well $pent’
Geniaal concept, deze Chrome extension: Inspired by the Time Well Spent movement, Greg Greiner and I built a Chrome extension that helps you save your money (and your time). Enter your pay frequency and salary and it will automatically convert prices on all websites to time. You’ll see how many days, minutes, hours it takes […]