We are so zoomed into our consumers, observing them as if they are a new species from another planet, we fail to see the bigger picture. The culture, politics, philosophy, environment, TV shows, books, movies, art, fashion – the world at large. We will not understand what people need and want by simply observing them. We have to experience their world for ourselves. It’s only then we can change it.
Tobias van Schneider
Category: on the Web
all things Web !
drinking HOT coffee, tea can hurt you
An interesting find by a this study:
Drinking very hot tea linked with risk of 1 type of oesophageal cancer
“Drinking piping hot tea or coffee could ‘double your risk of developing tumours in the oesophagus’,” reports the Mail Online. A study of more than 50,000 people in Iran showed that those who drank 700ml (about 2 to 3 mugs) of black tea a day at temperatures of 60C or above were almost twice as likely to go on to get oesophageal cancer during 10 years of follow-up in the study, compared with people who drank tea at lower temperatures.
Shot on iPhone challenge
Apple has declared the winners for its annual Shot on iPhone challenge.
I still don’t get how some people says that iphoneography is not photography. 🤷🏻♂️
Avataaars generator
From the imagination of designer Pablo Stanley and the coding skills of his friend Fang-Pen Lin here’s another avatar generator. I really like the overall look and the fact that part of the code is available freely on Github.
Above a quick ‘selfie’ I made for myself during a pause at work yesterday. If you like it have a run over getavataaars.com ☞
why working from home is good for business
It’s always a pleasure to listen Matt’s point of view on how to make people feel at home to obtain their best for his/the “company” business
about opinions, links and the web
Scott Adams. A genius.
The machine stops
Much of this, remarkably, was envisaged by E. M. Forster in his 1909 story “The Machine Stops,” in which he imagined a future where people live underground in isolated cells, never seeing one another and communicating only by audio and visual devices. In this world, original thought and direct observation are discouraged—“Beware of first-hand ideas!” people are told. Humanity has been overtaken by “the Machine,” which provides all comforts and meets all needs—except the need for human contact. One young man, Kuno, pleads with his mother via a Skype-like technology, “I want to see you not through the Machine. . . . I want to speak to you not through the wearisome Machine.”
Oliver Sacks, the New Yorker
He says to his mother, who is absorbed in her hectic, meaningless life, “We have lost the sense of space. . . . We have lost a part of ourselves. . . . Cannot you see . . . that it is we that are dying, and that down here the only thing that really lives is the Machine?”
This is how I feel increasingly often about our bewitched, besotted society, too.
