There's a product for every emotion

This is a video by Erina Scourti called “Life in AdWords”. She explains: "Every day, I write and email my diary to my Gmail account and copy over the list of suggested keywords linking to clusters of relevant ads, making visible the way we and our personal information are the product in the ‘free’ internet economy."



On the Internet, words don't fade or die. They are destined to a life of infinite existence and relationality. There's always a response to them. Words are bound to always make meaning, and to be attached to another word, which is attached to another one and so on. They become prisoners of contexts to which they don't belong. Words are not intimate, they belong to everyone. On the Internet, we're not one but everybody.

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Technology evolves; stories remain

Illustration drawn on iPad by Jorge Colombo

"There was one other big lesson he learned from his Hollywood adventure: People remember stories more than products. "The technology we've been laboring on over the past 20 years becomes part of the sedimentary layer," he told me once. "But when Snow White was re-released [on DVD, in 2001], we were one of the 28 million families that went out and bought a copy of it. This was a film that is 60 years old, and my son was watching it and loving it. I don't think anybody's going to be beating on a Macintosh 60 years from now.""
From "The Lost Steve Jobs Tapes" by Brent Schlender

Art imitates the medium

Adriana Cora, Waiting (Espera), 2012 - Source: Artlog.com

"Zoom in and zoom out" is the new perspective: moving from the whole to the pixel and vice versa.

Open or closed societies: that's the question

Human nature is rather technological

Mark Pagel, one of the world's leading experts on human evolution and development, talks about our species' capacity for culture, cooperation and community.

How is publishing changing?

"Publishing is not evolving. Publishing is going away. Because the word “publishing” means a cadre of professionals who are taking on the incredible difficulty and complexity and expense of making something public. That’s not a job anymore. That’s a button. There’s a button that says “publish,” and when you press it, it’s done." (Clay Shirky)

From “How We Will Read”, an interview series exploring the future of books from the perspectives of publishers, writers, and intellectuals.

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Change the paradigm, change the world

Sir Ken Robinson, world-renowned education and creativity expert, on how old education paradigms are still shaping the world we're living in today and how this generates chaos.