Why Is the World Losing Color?
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Why Is the World Losing Color?
It’s been endlessly argued that algorithms influence too much of what we watch, listen to, read, and even think. Personal taste erodes while decision-making is outsourced to the platform. This globalization, platform persuasion, and general apathy has spilled over into all types of homogenization: the look of our coffee shops, cars, architecture, l
... See more“Can it have been merely by coincidence that the future was to belong to societies fickle enough to care about changing the colors, materials, and shapes of costume, as well as the social order and the map of the world— societies, that is, which were ready to break with their traditions? There is a connection.”
Debbie Millman • Brand Thinking and Other Noble Pursuits
ecological valence theory—that might explain both the adult and the infant preferences. The theory is that we like the colors of the things we most like.