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why curation...
Cognitive Surplus: How Technology Makes Consumers into Collaborators
Clay Shirky • 30 highlights
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Goodwill Hunting #05: curation is the future of (re)commerce
Danielle Vermeergoodwillhunt.substack.com
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Our situation resembles that of 18th century England. At the eve of a new Industrial Revolution, inundated by foreign products, lacking the central authority of an Elite to dictate and inspire mimesis, we are left wandering in endless store aisles and webpages, wondering how to properly consume.
This begs the question: What might it mean to reimagine the form of these datasets in a world unconstrained by pressures like speed, scale, and universality? By looking to artists like Anna Ridler and others for their rejection of “off-the-shelf” datasets, we can imagine what it would be like to curate datasets with much deeper intention and... See more