cultural convergence
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cultural convergence
The cultural logic of the 2010s is best represented by the starter pack meme. In the starter pack meme, classes of people are identified through oblique subcultural references and products they are likely to consume.
Toby Shorin • Life After Lifestyle
New research suggests that AI is reducing complexity, or at least our experience of it. A recent study, The Platonic Representation Hypothesis , shows that as AI models become more powerful, they form increasingly similar statistical representations of the world. The result is that we are effectively simplifying our understanding of the world and... See more
🏡 I Don’t Resonate With You
Across food, across fashion and accessories, legal cannabis products, beverages, athleisure, skin care, supplements, and other permutations of consumer packaged goods and apparel, every manufacturing and last-mile strategy has become possible, from dropshipping to just-in-time, from small-batch to make-on-demand. Products begin their life as an
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Bigger breeds conformity and homogeneity, not creativity and experimentation.
workfutures • Always and Forever
globalization and the internet may be flattening the world’s once spiky terrain of mental disorders
Work in Progress, The Atlantic • America’s Top Export May Be Anxiety
less globalised (and less nationalised) cultures tend to produce highly localised, more divergent styles