baris cakmakci

cultural strategist and casual archivist / smart content for creative industries / 🚀flaneur / 🧸kidult / 🎠wanderlust / 🫆AI digger / 🎩istanbulbeyfendisi

[baris cakmakci @barisch]

Looking Back Before Looking Ahead
One year. 52 essays. Exploring how technology changed us. One question remains: What happens now that AI is beginning to change the way we think?
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The Camera Turned Around
From webcams and avatars to selfies, influencers, AI, and DeepFake, the story of how we stopped photographing the world and started questioning what we're really looking at.

https://t.co/mzWB97oZj6

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Love in the Time of Algorithms
What began with anonymous nicknames became a world where algorithms don't just introduce us to people; they increasingly shape how we love.

https://t.co/icgMoIHMGg

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How Did a JPEG End Up Selling for $69 Million?
The story of how blockchain, NFTs, and the metaverse promised to reinvent the internet—and what remains after the hype.

https://t.co/Hi1cCGaRA8

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When Learning Started to Look Like a Game
As knowledge became more accessible and learning more playful, a new question emerged: who gets to participate in the game?

https://t.co/jrpoSTP5vO

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Same Curiosity, New Formats
From Sumerian clay tablets and radio dramas to podcasts, YouTube essays, newsletters, and media ecosystems, a personal journey through the evolution of publishing.

https://t.co/sIgPGGnaZ5

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Tokyo, The City That Already Works Like the Future
On digital passports, bullet trains, anime worlds, and the invisible systems that make one of the world's most fascinating cities run.

https://t.co/83VkqUgpNE

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Majors Are Over, Time for the Minors
A personal reflection on how VR promised new worlds, AR found everyday use, and smart glasses quietly brought the interface back to our faces.
https://t.co/8BXoeEcLDE

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Re: Re: Fwd: Re: How We Ended Up Here?!
A personal journey through the evolution of work culture, from ethernet cables and fax tones to Zoom grids, Basecemp dashboards, cloud systems, and AI archives.

https://t.co/fRt1ZRG3Jp

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Ways of Thinking Visually
From overhead projectors and slide boxes to Pinterest boards and AI-generated presentations, a personal reflection on the cultural history of visual thinking.

https://t.co/oJpJ77b0UA

[baris cakmakci @barisch]

We’re Not Looking at the Sky Anymore
On apps, interfaces, and the illusion of control; how we stopped reading the sky and started refreshing it in a world we still don’t fully understand.

https://t.co/JzcigMrgLu

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Not Just Apps, But Moods
From Snapchat’s impermanence to TikTok’s algorithmic churn, a short cultural history of the platforms that changed how we show up, speak, perform, and disappear online.

https://t.co/FICXMT8cx4

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The Interface of Taste
A personal reflection on how the last twenty-five years transformed books, films, and the devices around them into a digital flow.
https://t.co/WnDvKqU3nW

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From Searching to Thinking: The Evolution of Google
What started as a search engine has become a system that understands, summarizes, and generates answers; reshaping how we access and process information. https://t.co/tJSN5Cpeyf

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Writing With an Invisible Team
Inside a new digital ecosystem where language becomes tone, interface, design, and algorithm; and where fluency is no longer just knowing, but navigating.
https://t.co/Sq4e8cyJW4

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The Trip Plans Itself Now
Somewhere between instinct and algorithm, travel is no longer something we organize, but something we follow.
https://t.co/NWCbyu5CBq

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The Grid Was a Layout for Me
From Vogue Türkiye’s first posts to the creator economy, on treating Instagram as an editorial space long before algorithms, metrics, and monetization took over.
https://t.co/ZCDh542Id6

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The Internet, in 140 Characters
How a simple SMS idea, once represented by a small blue bird, reshaped mass media, rewired public attention, and changed the rhythm of global conversation.
https://t.co/skLRFqTtOL

[baris cakmakci @barisch]

A Time Capsule Called YouTube
A personal tour of YouTube in Turkey: how it spread, why it was banned, and why it now runs like infrastructure.
https://t.co/S20YDTmx5Z

[baris cakmakci @barisch]

Writing Still Feels Like Home
From my first Blogspot post in 2005 to Tumblr, from Medium to Substack today, this is my personal timeline of writing, archiving, and finding my people. https://t.co/ov2zhZOe0W