Mes: mayo 2019

In a 2011 interview, Claire Boucher described her then-new project Grimes as “post-internet,” an attempt to put a name on the unique experience of discovering and making music in the digital age. “The music of my childhood was really diverse because I had access to everything,” she said, putting into words something an entire generation raised […]

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Shopping malls are having a rough time right now — some are calling it a «retail apocalypse.» But it wasn’t always this way. The ’90s were a great time for malls and mall-goers alike. These vintage photos show how much malls have changed since their ’90s glory days. Ah, the ’90s. Everything seemed much simpler then, including shopping. Now that we have the […]

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Surveillance capitalism is doing to human nature what industrial capitalism has done to our planet. For Google, Facebook, Twitter and their ilk, ad revenues are sacred. As Shoshana Zuboff observes in her new book, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, users are not tech companies’ customers — the businesses who purchase ads are. And those ads derive from […]

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Former Professor of the Harvard Business School, and American author, David Korten, is famous for penning the words, “Capitalism has defeated communism. It is now well on its way to defeating democracy.” Show that statement to any business owner, investor, or trader that’s doing well for themselves, and they may burst out laughing. Do you […]

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