The Blog of Tim Chambers
Fascinated by new technology enabling new politics and vice-versa.
Who Owns the Digital You? (Part 2 of 3)
“Identity will be one of the defining themes in the next five years of the Web.” — Aza Raskin, Former Head of User Design Mozilla, now VP…at Jawbone ¶ “The battle that is underway is not a battle over the future of privacy and publicity. It’s a battle over choice and informed consent.” — danah boyd ¶ “Blue Beetle” gets it: He is an online commenter who wrote this about advertiser-driven free sites: ¶ “If you aren’t paying for it, then you aren’t the customer any more, you are the product being sold.” ¶ He understands deeply what I was trying to express in my last post.
Tim ChambersOct 18, 2015
A great article on the history of the creation of the Apple Watch here.
I especially like this quote on it’s a reason for existence:Our phones have become invasive. But what if you could engineer a reverse state of being? What if you could make a device that you wouldn’t — couldn’t — use for hours at a time? What if you could create a device that could filter out all the bullshit and instead only serve you truly important information? You could change modern life. And so after three-plus decades of building devices that grab and hold our attention — the longer the better — Apple has decided that the way forward is to fight…Tim ChambersOct 18, 2015
The Blog of Tim Chambers
Fascinated by new technology enabling new politics and vice-versa.
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