canzona, un usuario de YouTube, subió un video, lo bajó y lo volvió a subir. Repitió el proceso mil veces, eliminando gradualmente todas las cualidades humanas de su voz y su imagen
Los mil pasos están disponibles en su perfil.
Mashable tiene una explicación sobre el proceso de degradación (efectos de la compresión al bajar y subir el video mil veces) y una breve reseña de otros experimentos similares con la reproducción/compresión de audio y video.
In Jesse Schells future we will still shop, eat cereal, brush our teeth and watch TV. But everything we do and more importantly all the information we attend to will win us points and benefits across a vast incentives network engineered by corporations and government entities
vía The Most Disturbing Presentation of the Year : Discovery News.
Rolf Potts, autor del –para algunos– esencial Vagabonding, ofrece algunos apuntadores para liberarse del ciclo interminable de producción-consumo y obtener el tiempo necesario para vagar por el mundo.
This notion — that material investment is somehow more important to life than personal investment — is exactly what leads so many of us to believe we could never afford to go vagabonding. The more our life options get paraded around as consumer options, the more we forget that there’s a difference between the two. Thus, having convinced ourselves that buying things is the only way to play an active role in the world, we fatalistically conclude that we’ll never be rich enough to purchase a long-term travel experience.
Fortunately, the world need not be a consumer product. As with environmental integrity, long-term travel isn’t something you buy into: it’s something you give to yourself.
Sigue leyendo The Difference: Living Well vs. Doing Well.