No.16- Internet Demons, Emoji Overload, Millennial Subsidies, Hotels, Algorithmic Anxiety
Internet Demons
On the possibly apocryphal but totally possible theory that the Internet is made of demons.
The Internet Is Made Of Demons
Emoji Overload
After rapid representation and diversity expansion in the 2010s, the Unicode Consortium (who approve new Emojis) have acknowledged too many brings communication complexity that is antonymic to the suggestive, inferred, and metonymic beauty of Emojis.
Millennial Subsidies
Another Generational elegy piece, this time drawing on the end of Millennial Consumer Subsidies from a generation of venture capital funded, loss-making lifestyle start-ups. Economic winter shines a cold light on unprofitable businesses that had gained so much share of mind and time.
The End of the Millennial Lifestyle Subsidy
Hotels
On the outmoded role hotels used to play as long-term accommodation options and now bringing it back in response to social issues around rising rents, insufficient housing supply...and also for the romanticism.
Algorithmic Anxiety
How ’collaborative filtering’ technologies morphed into an ‘algorithmic imaginary’ as people tried to understand how their deliberative actions and innocuous searches were translated into feedback loops. Folk theories emerge on how recommendation engines worked, and a lack of control creates an ’algorithmic anxiety’.