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The Fast-Foodification of Everything
Everyone’s office looks the same (a blend of WeWork/Soho House lite). Everyone’s coffee shops look the same and everyone’s coffee looks the same. Our high streets and malls all look the same (Main Street = chain street). Check into a hotel aimed at people in their 20s-40s...which city are you in? Which country, then? Ok, which continent?
Beth Bentley • Is the Algorithm Making Us LESS Stylish, LESS Interesting, LESS...ourselves?
AI refactors previous use of humans, and unleashes new use for humans. Two weeks traveling Japan proved to be the perfect setting to contemplate some of the sweeping changes facing our society over the coming years and decades. The smart people I know generally agree that 80% of the work of 80%+ of jobs will be refactored significantly by AI. And
... See moreScott Belsky • (100) The Personalization Wave, A Surge of Wildly Human-Intensive Non-Scalable Experiences, & Ideas Of The Month The Personalization Wave, A Surge of Wildly Human-Intensive Non-Scalable Experiences, & Ideas Of The Month
It’s not that these generic cafes are part of global chains like Starbucks or Costa Coffee, with designs that spring from the same corporate cookie cutter. Rather, they have all independently decided to adopt the same faux-artisanal aesthetic. Digital platforms like Foursquare are producing "a harmonization of tastes" across the world, Schwarzmann ... See more