Connectivity & Zuckerberg
Social Connectivity
Big Brother is watching? Duh. Is it Mark Zuckerburg’s fault that we all took him up on his offer to connect? In 2010 my high school reunion was greatly enhanced by Facebook and even more impactful was the ability to stay in touch after we got out of town. But now a scant 8 years later, we are raking this pasty nerd (in a good way) across the coals because a bunch of octogenarian "world" "leaders" just realized? Cambridge Analytics is the obvious isn't it?
Mark Zuckerbuerg I am truly sorry.
An app is a fraught word these days: first off, what does it refer to exactly? An application for my laptop or the address book on my phone. And forget about the youth today who can barely specialize in JavaScript before Ruby on Rails or Python supercede. Or what about the armies of coders at every tech companies that have unique specialties but can’t communicate with each other. The iOS vs Android.
An algorithm is another simple idea that has grown into a monster. Scary because it’s become over blown into a catchall phrase that the “experts” and “coders” keep using to obfuscate the basic truth. I wrote an algorithm and so have you. Ever explained something to fraternal, adolescent twins? You know how they finish each other’s sentences and act like they know everything. Well that’s the same as an algorithm. It’s basically a formula with a few massive variables and once it spits out a couple results, it conflates those details with other opinions and then begins running in the direction of the goal it decided was obvious. And like all teenagers, it does so with reckless abandon.
Part2 if you really wanna hear more...
Too Big To Fail - the FB stock price stayed high and the pundits applauded him because he is JP Morgan. In 1918 the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse were protected and lauded by Wall Street and the world leaders because even before Citizen United they were all in bed together. Now the world is flat so break down their ivory towers and ignore their moats around the castles because nothing is going on in their of consequence. The room where it happens is your room.
So stick with me..: Hypothetically speaking lets say you have two children, lets call them twin adolescent A, is a boy and, twin B, also adolescent, is a girl. When inputted with the exact same information as toddlers they had completely opposite reactions. Puréed broccoli was celebrated by A and rejected violently by B. Now, cut to them as teenagers: I put the same $40 in their pockets, A's is gone and B doubles it somehow. THeN, imagine they meetUP in their rooms later that nite, compare notes and the next day she turns her $$$ into profit and he does too. See how that is like a metaphor for an algorithm?
No? Oh well, I was trying to help. The thrust of it is to use AI for good. I am not the expert but I feel it is possible. Do you? What kinds of apps or algorithms that Creatives should give their info to as opposed to the Evil Empire/Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. How do we discern? Please comment, let me know and I will respond.
Much love and peace to you.
Sincerely,
ChuckieJabba.nyc
“We don’t sell data to anyone” - @MZuckerburg this is my ass.