As a practicing digital anthropologist, this chart still fascinates me.
We all know that the iPhone changed how people live, work, and shop. It also affected gum sales. 📱
Supermarket checkout lines were strategically stocked with gum, candy, and magazines to capture shopper attention as they waited to pay. With an iPhone, customers were focused on their screen instead.
Scenario planning helps businesses consider likely effects of emergent trends and shifts. This one would have been interesting to have tracked ahead of disruption.
One of the world's most eminent AI researchers, & the expert on causal reasoning, identifies a major irrationality in GPT-4: It runs by associations, which it treats as transitive, whereas many logical & causal relationships are not.
There’s a trend in Spanish slang of describing someone with an overly high opinion of themselves as a powerful fictional character, but of a tiny territory. Examples are ‘Yeti of the fridge freezer,’ ‘Aquaman of the toilet bowl,’ and ‘Tarzan of the flowerpot.’ Anybody got more?
¿Cómo te quedas si te digo que la curva hacia la izquierda que ves en esta carretera demuestra que la tierra es redonda? Y que, si hubiera sido plana, esa curva no existiría. ¿No te lo crees? Pues prepárate para ver el mundo de otra forma, una alucinante. ⬇️¡Hilo!⬇️
Es increíble que no haya un relator argentino que haya logrado emocionar sin exagerar, ponerse como protagonista o fingir épica. Esto de Peter Drury es poesía https://t.co/5UXr1yrvSr
Maradona never won the Copa America
Pele never played in Europe
Ronaldo never won the Champions League
Cryuff never win the World Cup
Cristiano never win the World Cup
Messi won it all