“What do I Need That For?” - The Potential in Your Pocket (3 Min read)
Q: What is a phone?
A: Potential.
It could be a million things, or one.
The decision of what it becomes is up to the individual, steered by manufacturers, software companies and regulators.
Advertising in tech commonly focuses on the specs — "X much faster than the previous model". A clean, justifiable metric believed to sell…
The dark side of Social Media and Algorithms (3-5 min read)
You're curled up on the couch, fully immersed in a great book or movie, when your phone interrupts with a ding! That unmistakable sound pulls you out of the moment. Maybe it's that message you have been waiting for all day or an important update from your doctor. You pick up your phone just to check. But it is just a message from Facebook, reading: "You have 3 notifications waiting for you!"
You may think to yourself it can wait. As you return to your book or movie, you find your concentration wanes. You hesitate, but the idea lingers in your mind. What could it be, a message from an old friend? An update on a viral post or news story? Slowly, that itch to check becomes irresistible.
Twenty minutes later, you snap out of a haze of endless scrolling and you can’t even recall why you opened the app in the first place. Worse, your focus is shattered, and the magic of your book or movie is gone.
What just happened isn’t random, it is by design….