What can we learn from the world’s most enduringly creative people? They “slow-motion multitask,” actively juggling multiple projects and moving between topics as the mood strikes — without feeling hurried. Author Tim Harford shares how innovators like Einstein, Darwin, Twyla Tharp and Michael Crichton found their inspiration and productivity through cross-training their minds.
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Fake videos of real people and how to spot them
Do you think you’re good at spotting fake videos, where famous people say things they’ve never said in real life? See how they’re made in this astonishing talk and tech demo. Computer scientist Supasorn Suwajanakorn shows how, as a grad student, he used AI and 3D modeling to create photorealistic fake videos of people synced to audio. Learn more about both the ethical implications and the creative possibilities of this tech — and the steps being taken to fight against its misuse.
An Attempt To Define Some Key Visual Storytelling Trends That are Shaping The Future Of Communication
An attempt
to define Some Key
Visual Storytelling Trends That are Shaping The Future
of Communication from Michael Paredrakos
My presentation at Let’s talk Visual Storytelling – Content Marketing Meetup over at Orange Grove Athens. A big thanks to Dimitris Axiotis and Maria Papasimakopoulou for inviting me to present my curious thoughts. You guys rule
The era of blind faith in big data must end | Cathy O’Neil
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Amusing ourselves to death…
Steven Pinker: Is the world getting better or worse ? A look at the numbers!
How language shapes the way we think
There are about 7,000 languages spoken around the world — and they all have different sounds, vocabularies and structures. But do they shape the way we think? Cognitive scientist Lera Boroditsky shares examples of language — from an Aboriginal community in Australia that uses cardinal directions instead of left and right to the multiple words for blue in Russian — that suggest the answer is a resounding yes. “The beauty of linguistic diversity is that it reveals to us just how ingenious and how flexible the human mind is,” Boroditsky says. “Human minds have invented not one cognitive universe, but 7,000.”