Essays on becoming Chris Barclay
It’s the Winter of 2017 and I’m sitting on the sofa with my five year-old daughter, Hannah, watching WALL-E. It’s one of the first movies I remember being as equally entertaining for kids and parents. For those who haven’t seen it, the story portrays a moving bond between robots WALL-E and EVE in their quest to […]
Continue ReadingFacebook friends. Instagram followers. Discord groups. We are building systems that help us optimize for separation. While claiming to further connectivity, these algorithms and their frameworks teach us to quantify our personal value by audience engagement versus through actual human affinity. They keep us hooked by gamifying social interaction, rewarding performative likability in place of […]
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