Dichotomies: The Week's Links

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ALL THE LINKS POSTED ON SOCIAL NETWORKS:

  • Calculating art: Artistic success takes a mysterious mix of talent, luck and timing. But could algorithms now predict and produce the hits? buff.ly/2z75NLZ

  • Inside the windowless bunker where Disney stores its 'secret weapon' buff.ly/2RasrdA

  • Thousands Of Swedes Are Inserting Microchips Under Their Skin buff.ly/2ODQTHw

  • Nasa photographs rectangular iceberg buff.ly/2R3tD2q

  • The 50 Most Daring Entrepreneurs in 2018 buff.ly/2SasyXS

  • Digital immortality: How your life’s data means a version of you could live forever buff.ly/2ScpnPw

  • Lessons learned: Seven ways news outlets can rebuild trust and sustainability buff.ly/2OJR6sz

  • What happens when Facebook goes down? People read the news - Chartbeat Blog buff.ly/2EvYKCl

  • Younger generations are actually better at telling news from opinion than those over age 50 buff.ly/2Aq9AWr

  • A 6-Part Tool for Ranking and Assessing Risks buff.ly/2Ap3HZx

  • One Reason Mergers Fail: The Two Cultures Aren’t Compatible buff.ly/2AoKXcP

  • How Netflix Expanded to 190 Countries in 7 Years buff.ly/2CxJeTI

  • The “Big Three” (And Free) Ways To Boost Your Creativity: Todd Sampson buff.ly/2D1Vpt9

  • Michael Bloomberg Thinks Midsize Arts Nonprofits Can Change American Cities, and He's Spending Over $100 Million to Prove It buff.ly/2PVNCjx

  • 4 types of research methods all designers should know buff.ly/2PQEgFF

  • (Re)building use cases for language technology in the newsroom buff.ly/2AoLZoQ

  • Six Cyber Threats to Really Worry About in 2018 – MIT Technology Review – Medium buff.ly/2PzrAmR

  • “We Had Gone Back 20 Years.” The Heads of Puerto Rico’s Largest Media Company on Life After Hurricane Maria buff.ly/2CBDA2T

  • Which Data Skills Do You Actually Need? This 2×2 Matrix Will Tell You. buff.ly/2NOBpuZ

  • Illusion of the Year: Top 10 finalists in the 2018 Contest buff.ly/2OLE3Hr

  • An Alternative History of Silicon Valley Disruption buff.ly/2yVVWbz

  • Establishing an AI code of ethics will be harder than people think buff.ly/2yVCFqS

  • Did I Make a Mistake Selling My Social-Media Darling to Yahoo? buff.ly/2PKNsLK

  • Two Hundred Fifty Things an Architect Should Know buff.ly/2CxHw4I

  • Fold N Fly ✈ A database of paper airplanes with easy to follow folding instructions. buff.ly/2R9nT7s

  • How to redesign a 175-year-old newspaper – The Economist buff.ly/2CWHFjr

  • The Two Types of Knowledge (or How to Be Smart) buff.ly/2RYEo7v

  • When you need to take an intellectual snack break buff.ly/2yTs7IA

  • Why we have an emotional connection to robots buff.ly/2yTrJK8

  • Why Kodak Died and Fujifilm Thrived: A Tale of Two Film Companies buff.ly/2NOlRHF

  • It’s Time to Become a Time Realist buff.ly/2zXSRt6

  • 3 ways that tech helps me handle my anxiety and depression buff.ly/2EpJ4R9

  • When Pop-Up Books Taught Popular Science buff.ly/2CuqEMc

  • Italy’s Oldest Instrument Hints at Sounds of Prehistoric Rome buff.ly/2OBpxl9

  • The 10 Best Books on Productivity, According to People Who Get Things Done buff.ly/2NQfxiT

  • Why Doesn’t Ancient Fiction Talk About Feelings? buff.ly/2q1Zntd

  • The Enduring Appeal of Oscar the Grouch buff.ly/2S39AT9

  • How quantum physics can make encryption stronger buff.ly/2CVn0Mv

  • Why I study the most dangerous animal on earth -- mosquitoes buff.ly/2Curbhp

  • 8 TED Talks on what you need to know about medicine buff.ly/2CV87tO

  • The Best Colors Named After People buff.ly/2ysMsEk

  • How Can We Make Design Better for the Color-Blind? buff.ly/2pUs9vM

  • Celebrity designers, context collapse, and rethinking how I teach design history buff.ly/2QYcPd5

  • How to Turn Creative Tension Into an Inspired Creative Product buff.ly/2OACdss

  • Typographica: Our Favorite Typefaces of 2017 buff.ly/2CTASGX

  • Stephen Hawking’s Final Book and Scientific Paper Just Got Published: Brief Answers to the Big Questions and “Information Paradox” buff.ly/2QYVDEa

  • Life Advice: Don’t Find Your Passion. Study suggests meaningful work can be something you grow into, not something you discover buff.ly/2RXvneN

  • Being Good at Prioritizing Is More Important Than Working Hard buff.ly/2S02Ox9

  • To Achieve More, Focus on Your Principles buff.ly/2Ey8X1f

  • A cartography of consciousness – researchers map where subjective feelings are located in the body buff.ly/2QZE4ns

  • Dear Creative Leaders: Will Creative Teams Exist in 2028? buff.ly/2EwNKol

  • Inside 75 Years of Lippincott's Iconic Designs, From Campbell's Soup Can to Coca-Cola's Ribbon buff.ly/2RXlttD

  • After 50 Years, The Iconic Mexico 68 Olympics Design Is Still Revered — And Disputed buff.ly/2CSfKkG

  • Computer Stories: A.I. Is Beginning to Assist Novelists buff.ly/2RZpAVX

  • Mysterious cosmic radio signal spotted unusually close to Earth buff.ly/2EwTEWk

  • Moons can have moons and they are called moonmoons buff.ly/2EEETke

  • From Print to Digital: Designing an Immersive ePub buff.ly/2RSPj2t

  • Rhythm in Web Typography buff.ly/2AcEqBR

  • Winners of VR Awards 2018 announced buff.ly/2NQ5x9c

  • 'The body lights up': stroke survivors find their footing through dance buff.ly/2pYbjfH

  • Mathematical ideas are some of the most transformative and beautiful in history. So why do they get so little attention? buff.ly/2RZvkyW

  • Relics of power: why humans cannot resist the magical potency of charismatic objects buff.ly/2EvbtVY

  • How immersive technologies have sparked a theatrical revolution buff.ly/2Eor1dU

  • How Immersive Theater Is Bringing Intimacy Back to Entertainment. Instead of passively observing the story, audiences at these shows are swept up in human interactions buff.ly/2J4TMez

  • Rembrandt masterpiece The Night Watch to be restored under world's gaze buff.ly/2pXj05N

  • Why the practice of craft delivers a meaningful life buff.ly/2EqLH4T

  • Your next doctor’s appointment might be with an AI buff.ly/2RTtaB8

  • Palm’s progress: The rise, fall—and rebirth—of a legendary brand buff.ly/2AeGsRY

  • Paul Allen, 1953-2018: Microsoft’s cofounder and so much more buff.ly/2QTN1yP

  • DNA-based molecular computing will pave the way for programmable pills buff.ly/2NMLgBv

  • How acting as Carrie Fisher’s puppet made a career for Rogue One’s Princess Leia buff.ly/2NMrXZ8

  • How Paul Allen Saved the American Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence buff.ly/2CRPQ0v

  • Actors are digitally preserving themselves to continue their careers beyond the grave buff.ly/2NMrPJ9

  • Columbia DSL’s Sandbox: a podcast exploring new forms & functions of storytelling buff.ly/2RXKbu6

  • Creating Virtual Reality Journalism: A Guide For Best Practices buff.ly/2QLVuVr


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Antonio Ortiz

Antonio Ortiz has always been an autodidact with an eclectic array of interests. Fascinated with technology, advertising and culture he has forged a career that combines them all. In 1991 Antonio developed one of the very first websites to market the arts. It was text based, only available to computer scientists, and increased attendance to the Rutgers Arts Center where he had truly begun his professional career. Since then Antonio has been an early adopter and innovator merging technology and marketing with his passion for art, culture and entertainment. For a more in-depth look at those passions, visit SmarterCreativity.com.