To show how it feels not to be able to read, the United Nation's development program, UNDP, will hand out an unintelligible freesheet in Stockholm today, according to Dagens Media. Not sure I'm too convinced by the effectiveness of this campaign, developed by ad agency Futurniture. News that make you go hmm...:
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As an experiment, what about looking at the think pieces and ideas that still stick from 2023 – rather than the newest new thing or predicting trends that may or may not come to pass? For me, some of the articles I still think about, that still resonate from last year
“Social Media is not really a filter bubble but a boxing ring: You are both bonding with people with similar values, views, interests and in conflict with people with opposing views.” The quote belongs to techno-sociologist Zeynep Tufekci, today a professor at Columbia University. I've recently read two