Tag: the internet
On the internet you can find the answer to almost any simple question with just a click. But what about the big questions, like “Who am I? What should I do? What does my future hold?” You can’t Google the solutions to existential dilemmas yet. But the art collective the Institute for New Feeling is […]
Andy Baio has a YouTube channel collecting some amazing media-ephemera from the ’90s and this gem embedded above will teach you everything you need to know about the internet through complicated analogies like “The internet is an airport.” If viewing naive takes on the internet isn’t amazing enough, the public television graphics and strange out-of-time fashions of […]
A new survey from Pew Research Center and Rutger’s University shows that social media use makes people less likely to voice opinions they think are different than those held by their friends. This uneasiness even extends to the offline world, where participants who used social media consistently were less likely to voice dissenting views, if […]
In the best news since the last cool thing the government did, the Secret Service has acquired software that can supposedly detect “false positives” on the internet, including sarcasm. The software can also do all kinds of great stuff like “sentiment analysis” and “influencer identification” and is compatible with already vulnerable web browser Internet Explorer […]
