With Liberty and Sans Serif for All
I got to listen to and see a walk through of this work at the Brand New Conference two weeks ago in Chicago.
The Executive Computer - ‘Mother of All Markets’ or a ‘Pipe Dream Driven by Greed’?
Sometime around the middle of this decade no one is sure exactly when — executives on the go will begin carrying pocket-sized digital communicating devices. And although nobody is exactly sure what features these personal information gizmos will have, what they will cost, what they will look like or what they will be called, hundreds … agreed that the devices could become the foundation of the next great fortunes to be made in the personal computer business.
From 1992, surfaced via a Daring Fireball post. Very fun to read in 2017.
Imagine reading a NY Times article from today in the September 2042 Times and that’s this.
The Great Tech Panic of 2017
A collection of articles in this September’s issue of Wired. Beautiful full-bleed web design, so look at this on your desk- or laptop instead of phone.
Privacy at Apple
Apple is one of the few of our corporate behemoths that headlines privacy as a feature and is teaching customers what the “right” solution looks like.
This marketing page posted last week showcases the privacy feature nicely.
At Apple, we build privacy into every product we make, so you can enjoy great experiences that keep your personal information safe and secure.
We cannot afford to be indifferent to internet spying
This quote in an article from the Guardian in 2013 after the Snowden leaks is profound, but it doesn’t seem like consumers have demanded much change.
We have reached the moment after which the number of people who give a damn about their privacy will only increase.
Why Paul Krugman Is Wrong About Wearables
This is an ACLU blog post in response to a 2015 NY Times column. It covers interesting topics - the Varian rule (“a simple way to forecast the future is to look at what rich people have today”), privacy of the rich, wearables, and the ACLU’s plenty to hide position.
In a blog post Friday, the always interesting Paul Krugman weighs in on the future of wearable technology such as the Apple Watch. Acknowledging that he has no special expertise, he predicts that wearable tracking devices will become widespread, and that people will use them not just to monitor themselves, but, as he pithily puts it, “so the ubiquitous surveillance net can see them, and give them stuff.”
The best weekend activities are most likely not the ones you’re currently doing
Just because you didn’t work last weekend doesn’t mean you had a good weekend.
You should find time for eudaimonic activities this weekend.
You are the product
This is a long one, and the paragraph below only scratches the surface. This topic — of advertising, privacy, and the role that these few big companies play in our daily lives through a front — is increasingly important to understand in today’s world, so take the time to understand.
Facebook, in fact, is the biggest surveillance-based enterprise in the history of mankind. It knows far, far more about you than the most intrusive government has ever known about its citizens. It’s amazing that people haven’t really understood this about the company. I’ve spent time thinking about Facebook, and the thing I keep coming back to is that its users don’t realise what it is the company does. What Facebook does is watch you, and then use what it knows about you and your behaviour to sell ads. I’m not sure there has ever been a more complete disconnect between what a company says it does — ‘connect’, ‘build communities’ — and the commercial reality.