RafaelFajardo

Year: 2015

  • On Big Data’s shrinking returns

    mostlysignssomeportents: In my new Guardian column, I point out that the big-data-driven surveillance business model is on the rocks. Once upon a time, you could sell soap with a slogan like “You will be clean,” but we become resistant to ads. While Big Data initially generated some promising sell-through results, these days, companies like Facebook…

  • A Pepsi commercial on MTV promoting the 1998 MTV music video awards emphasized the fact that the video of the year award would be selected by the viewers through Internet and phone calls live during the show; the commercial dramatized “the power of choice” and reminded us that “you are in charge of your destiny,”…

  • It gets bet­t­er. There are whole spe­cies of other bots that in­fest the Amazon Mar­ketplace, pre­tend­ing to have used co­p­ies of books, fight­ing epic price wars no one ever sees. So with “Tur­ing Test” we have a de­light­ful futuris­tic ab­surd­ity: a com­put­er pro­gram, pre­tend­ing to be human, hawk­ing a book about com­put­ers pre­tend­ing to be…

  • I just made Connected Worlds – a 3000 sqft interactive ecosystem made with openFrameworks. Happy to answer any questions. • /r/creativecoding

    I just made Connected Worlds – a 3000 sqft interactive ecosystem made with openFrameworks. Happy to answer any questions. • /r/creativecoding A great explainer AMA about how this project (which is slated to run 5-10 years) works…lessons for every installation artist.

  • code drawing 70, #madeonhopscotch

  • code drawing 68, state 8, #madeonhopscotch

  • African sci-fi features all manner of weird and outlandish things, from crime-fighting robots to technological dystopias. But could they be closer to predicting the future than they realise? (via The weird worlds of African sci-fi – African Business Magazine)

  • <blockquote> “I couldn’t really explain it,” he says. “It made me realize that I really wanted to make things, something you can hold in your hand, something that lasts longer than a digital product. I wanted to give something to my children."  From this desire, Petrikas started smart toy company Vai Kai with Justyna Zubrycka,…