Dayna Carney

Patience is chic.

Even so, I was also a teenager, making decisions based on the visibility that our culture teaches us to desire. I knew that my audience wanted to feel authenticity from me. To give that to them, I revealed pieces of myself that I might have been wiser to keep private.

Because that’s what it was like before the Internet. You made your own fun.

Online culture encourages young people to turn themselves into a product at an age when they’re only starting to discover who they are.   When an audience becomes emotionally invested in a version of you that you outgrow, keeping the product you’ve made aligned with yourself becomes an impossible   dilemma.

Reconstructing scents from the past isn’t easy. To create the “Follow Your Nose” exhibit in 2022, Museum Ulm partnered with  Odeuropa , a project that’s developing new methods—including artificial intelligence and sensory mining tools—to identify and preserve  Europe ’s heritage

smells.

Before the Internet, if you were in need of some facts you might actually decide to consult an old person, like the one living in your finished basement.