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Lower Manhattan Security Initiative (LMSI), which installed CCTV cameras around the city, IBM used secret camera footage of thousands of unknowing New Yorkers, provided by the New York City Police Department, to refine IBM facial recognition software to search for and identify people by “hair color, facial hair, and skin tone.”51 It’s a
Clyde W. Ford • Think Black: A Memoir
The Playboy Interview: Marshall McLuhan
hannemyr.comRSA ANIMATE: The Divided Brain
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What separates Holmes from Watson, the passive observer from the active one, engaged passivity from disengaged activity, is precisely the descriptor I’ve used in both cases: engagement. Flow. Motivation. Interest.
Maria Konnikova • Mastermind
McLuhan once said, “We don’t know who discovered water, but we know it wasn’t a fish. A pervasive environment, a pervasive medium is always beyond perception.” The big point to McLuhan is this: the messages that these media of written language are sending to us go far beyond the actual content or subject matter of the thing that’s being written abo... See more