Last night's episode of Techtonic w/Mark Hurst featured Carl Öhman, author of "The Afterlife of Data." Absolutely fascinating interview, avail here: https://www.wfmu.org/flashplayer.php?version=3&show=143612&archive=258097
(This was aired live on WFMU, the greatest radio station on earth. Check out their site for round the clock, live-DJ hosted radio: https://www.wfmu.org/)
Some cool stuff I remember off the top of my braino from the episode: big tech are the unwilling stewards of history, and as such, they end up scrubbing lots of important things that are shared on their platforms (i.e. war crimes depicted on video sent to Youtube gets auto-deleted, etc)
One person in the world effectively owns the entirety of the #metoo testimonials and may or may not just choose to nuke them from the servers one day.
By 2070 there will be approx 2 billion dead users of social media, and none of the companies have any plans how to handle this
Modernism rejects the idea of death, social media is a hypermodern platform in itself, and yet we are now faced with forced or willing interactions with dead people on these platforms
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Did they cover taking an apprentice to silently replace you without anyone knowing? Asking for a friend
thanks! I have a lot of love for crts and they're a huge inspiration for my work.
I did not expect that discord link to work, but you really commit to the bit. amazing!