This morning, when I logged in for the day, I noticed that Google is celebrating Johannes Gutenberg. Gutenberg was the inventor of the movable-type printing press and arguably the father of mass communications. I’m someone who has been a member of the press, dedicated his career to strategic communications, and …
Last November, I went to the Boston Drone Film Festival (BDFF) and I fell in love with a new kind of filmmaking that I just had to try. People were flying around these tiny drones using controllers from radio control cars. They wore VR style goggles and could see through …
I recently finished the book Weapons of Math Destruction by Cathy O’Neil. This fascinating book talks about when microtargeting and algorithms are used to exact terrible outcomes on society. O’Neil highlights trending topics algorithms and data-driven microtargeting as a factor in society that increases inequality, reinforces discrimination, and threatens to …
