Graham Candy

I am VP, Strategy @ddbcanda. Trained anthropologist and skeptic. I try to make good advertising whenever possible.

[richard shotton @rshotton]

Three rules describing how we react to technology from Douglas Adams

Via The Week

[Graham Candy @grahamcandy]

"We face a future in which active surveillance is such a routine part of business that for most people it is nearly inescapable. In this respect, we are on the road back to serfdom" @superwuster
https://t.co/Tjhp2st0FD

[Graham Candy @grahamcandy]

The role of disembodied hands on the internet as creating a sense of agency through their anonymity. A reminder of the power of internet still has democratize knowledge @amandahess

[Privacy Project @PrivacyProject]

Are you ever creeped out by an ad that seems to know you? Did you know that surveillance camera can actually recognize you? Are you tempted to take one of those DNA tests? This year, @nytopinion is looking at tech's impact on privacy — and what to do about it.

[richard shotton @rshotton]

Benford’s law of controversy seems particularly apt at the moment

[Graham Candy @grahamcandy]

Historical geographical parallels between areas who voted for the Nazis in 1933 and the AfD in 2017 #economist

[Graham Candy @grahamcandy]

This could equally be applied to the US and many other nation states struggling to imagine the consequences of decades of half baked social policies and neoliberalism. #Brexit

[New York Times Opinion @nytopinion]

Today’s tech companies enter the public markets at a moment of reckoning, as Silicon Valley faces a backlash from regulators and consumers. The tightly knit nature of tech investment has not prepared its leaders well to meet this challenge. https://t.co/HPLx3gdQCy

[Graham Candy @grahamcandy]

*Silicon, oi

[Graham Candy @grahamcandy]

Silicone valley's old money. All too similar to our political sphere @margaretomara -

[Graham Candy @grahamcandy]

@Remender You ever read TekkonKinkreet? Loving it and it reminds me of Deadly Class. The description seems right up your alley: “Punk rock meets fine art on the mean streets of Treasure Town.”

[Priscilla Li @PRISisPR]

https://t.co/vuAewBXNqH -- most insightful story on China's "Diaosi" lost generation of young men -- Congrats to author Graham Candy!!!

[Graham Candy @grahamcandy]

The Westworld theme song is simply a stripped down version of Brahms Piano Concerto No.2 in B-flat major, Op. 83 II. Allegro appassionato...

[Graham Candy @grahamcandy]

@RaminDjawadii Brahm’s Concerto for Piano and Orchestra no. 2 and your Westworld theme share a lot in common! I guess great minds do think alike 🙂 https://t.co/6gooatV5DW

[matthew lawrence @socionaut]

First day at my new gig. Director, Insights & Strategy at Diamond. Already feeling at home. @… https://t.co/fjfgFKujbk

[Graham Candy @grahamcandy]

@carolyn1mallory Yes indeed I like long character counts. Yes indeed I like long character counts. Yes indeed I like long character counts. Yes indeed I like long character counts. Yes indeed I like long character counts. Yes indeed I like long character counts. Yes indeed I like long character c

[Graham Candy @grahamcandy]

I just published “How to market in a de-synchronized world” https://t.co/KRwHHHYyDr

[Hardcore Gaming 101 @HG_101]

Props to the Wulverblade developers who, when asked why their Roman-era Britain beat-em-up has black people in it, gives a thorough, historically accurate explanation

[Graham Candy @grahamcandy]

“I wonder who it was defined man as a rational animal. It was the most premature definition ever given.” - Oscar Wilde

[Graham Candy @grahamcandy]

"The chronoscopic time of the ICT revolution - a temporality of instantaneous and continuous connectivity - is, paradoxically, accompanied by new forms of inertia"-Judy Wajcman reflecting on how new tech both speeds up life and simultaneously traps us at our desks / on our phones