#PurpleLinks (27): 25-hour day, stealth wealth, telepresence, friendship recession & functional fixedness
● Denisa Irimia
Digital Marketing Freelancer | Team Management, E-commerce, Communication
Hello and welcome to a new edition of?#PurpleLinks?- a list of links I clicked last week! Here's the latest from my corner of the internet to yours.
???Internet Of (Random) Things
?? The Moral Economy of High-Tech Modernism. The power to classify is a great power. The exercise of that power is now passing, scarcely remarked and scarcely understood, from bureaucrats to algorithms. Who benefits?
?? Inventor Martin Cooper, nicknamed “the father of the cell phone,” decried screen addiction, saying he’s “devastated” when he sees people staring at their phones while crossing the street.
?? CERN scientists propose 25-hour day.
?? Last month, four of the five top apps in the US were made in China.
?? Warner Bros. dropped a trailer and several cast posters for the upcoming Barbie film starring Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling. It also launched a website where you can create your own Barbie poster.
?? 2023 Instagram Engagement Report.
?? The Great Awokening as a Global Phenomenon.
?? The Pixelated Party Is Over for NFTs.
?? "Telepresence" is what you feel when you feel more in an app or a game than in the real world. When TikTok and Instagram keep your scrolling and time seems to not be happening to you, this is when you're "telepresent". And this hurts your mental health.
?? The Perils of Gamification. Digital rewards and streaks have been the attention currency of new-age apps for years.
?? The revenge of the pop-up. Nobody wants them. Nobody likes them. Why is the worst UI element of all time ubiquitous again?
???Shut up & Take My Money
?? Traditional passports may be replaced by human heartbeats in the future. Experts believe that by 2070, travel won't require passports, suitcases, tour guides, or translation dictionaries.
?? The Fragrance Shop to launch first experiential flagship store in London.
?? Amazon will close its Book Depository later this month, 12 years after acquiring the UK-based online shop.
?? Walmart has revamped its website and app to look less like a standard online storefront, and a little more like a social media feed, with video content and big glossy images?of products.
???Real Life Is The New Luxury
?? The understated “stealth wealth” fashion that defines HBO’s Succession.
?? London offering bus tours of the homes of the rich and kleptocratic.
?? Why the super-rich love understated dressing.
?? The Latest in Experiential Retail. As the in-store experience evolves, retailers are experimenting with interactive store models to re-connect with shoppers.
?? Dolce & Gabbana is opening luxury apartments and a hotel.
?? How Brands Are Selling Quiet Luxury to the Masses.
???Human 2 Human
?? China’s Newest Dating Craze: Real-Life Meetups With Virtual Boyfriends.
?? Today's old folks set to smash through longevity records. A new study suggests that people born between 1910 and 1950 have the potential to expand the 'human mortality plateau'. The human body's true biological limit has still not been reached.
领英推荐
?? Do We Have A Crisis Of Imagination? The world has changed, but our stories have not.
?? A 2019 study found that men technically gossip more at work than women do. 55% of men gossip compared to 79% of women—but men gossip for longer periods of time. Of course, there’s a difference between malicious takedowns and harmless exchanges.?
?? Feeling lonely? You’re not alone. America is in a “friendship recession.”
?? Functional fixedness: when we stick to what we know. Functional fixedness is a cognitive bias which makes us automatically narrow down the function of each tool. Although functional fixedness offers great mental shortcuts, it can present barriers to working to your full creative potential.
?? The world of anti-social wellness culture, which "whispers that you 'don’t owe anyone anything'" and "glamourizes—and moralizes—a life spent alone."
?? Kindness Can Have Unexpectedly Positive Consequences. People who engage in random acts of kindness may not fully recognize the impact of their behavior on others.
?? Is Therapy-Speak Making Us Selfish? Boundaries are important. But our relationships require a touch more compassion than some online blueprints offer.
???AI Rabbit Hole
?? Spammers found a way to use ChatGPT and other AI tools to generate fake reviews on Google’s Business listings. Google has already outlined a strategy for battling AI reviews.
?? AI will soon become impossible for humans to comprehend – the story of neural networks tells us why.
?? Stanford just released a huge 386-page report on the state of AI.
?? $500,900 pay for ‘AI whisperer’ jobs appears in red-hot market.
?? Retail tech startup captures €1.5M to analyse consumer behaviour inside a store without cameras.
?? I am not afraid of robots. I am afraid of people.
???Jack Of All Trades
?? Create a stunning website in 20 seconds with AI.
?? Storyblocks made a comprehensive guide to walk you through the process of building a video strategy.?
?? Free Image Resizer by Shopify.
?? The free learning list.
?? If you work at a nonprofit, this guide can walk you through how to make use of Google Ad Grants.
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