👋 On time for your weekend: a round-up of this week's most remarkable stories at the intersection of #ecosystem #innovation and #platform #organisation.
The Seven Deadly Sins of Consumer Technology
Of course, the seven deadly sins framework filters things through a negative light, and companies building on a sin aren’t inherently bad. It’s normal to feel these emotions, and every consumer-facing company—in some way—taps into the negative emotions as well as the positive. Social networks, for instance, are as much about spreading kindness as they are about spreading malice. They are conduits for human communication, which runs the full spectrum of emotion. Both the good and the bad fuel network growth.
👤 Tech and Surfacing the shadow qualities - By Rex Woodbury
A Hookup App for the Emotionally Mature
Charles Fulford, Feeld’s chief creative officer, said that the future of the app will have less to do with the notion of “dating” than with creating a safe space for people to explore undeclared or unquestioned aspects of their identities. “We believe this dynamism and fluidity is preternaturally human,” Fulford wrote me, in an e-mail, “much like the eroding taboo we see around psychedelic drugs going from perceived weirdos on the fringe to mainstream medicine and pop-culture acceptance. We want to help people navigate this change and push forward this next age of how we view identity, sexuality and relationships.”
👁️ Redefining perspectives with Tech - by Emily Witt
The Internet from Rocks
This is really all it takes to get the Internet from rocks. As a species, we’ve successfully managed to put a bunch of rocks and metal in very specific configurations across the globe in order to create an automated network of data transmission. If you think about all the work and research it’s taken to get to the point, it’s truly amazing. Now, should you ever meet any time travelers, you should now be well equipped to explain what these shiny metal devices that we all seemingly poke away at all day are. Hopefully that preoccupies them for a while and gives them the ability to google things, instead of exposing your complete lack of understanding about how most things in our society work.
Tech and the Human Connection, and how the Internet came to be - in Julian's Blog
Johnattan Bi - Girard, Desire, and Modernity
What defines us from animal, is not our ability to grasp truth, animals grasp truth in ways that we don’t…,what defines us is our ability to believe in lies… We are people who would trade pieces of paper for the fundament of our survival - food and shelter… The crypto currencies are even better example. Even in the domain of economics we are not rational, utility maximising creatures, but spirited creatures concerned with comparing with others, concerned with out own social standing, concerned with not what a car or house can do for us, but what it says about us. We are fundamentally spirited and social creatures.
🌀 Tech that facilitates Illusions - in Infinite Loops
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