Technology
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Why do you download an app?
When you go to the app store, you are there for various reasons: You want to download a specific app. You want to explore new apps under a particular category. It’s getting late, and you don’t want to sleep yet, so you want to do something with your time, and downloading an app at the Read more
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Out from the echo chamber
It’s almost three months since I didn’t have a smartphone in my hands all the time. It simply means I cannot check and update my social media accounts as much as I used to. Buying online isn’t as seamless as I remember it. Now, I have to drag the bulk of my tablet just to Read more
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Letter no. 28
Inspired by this future scenario—face searching. Dear reader from the future, I don’t know what to feel about having my face searched online, like how we search for names or topics over the internet today. Yes, I post stuff online, like my profile on different social media accounts, which includes personal details and various media Read more
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Are you ready for a world in which facial recognition technologies allow regular people to face search you on the internet?
This scenario is based from our monthly scenario club at the Urgent Optimists. Urgent Optimists is a community that brings “together people who want to feel authentically hopeful about the future, and who are working to create positive transformation in society and in their own lives.” I’m a member of Urgent Optimists, and I think Read more
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Exploring MidJourney and the future of AI art
In one of the webinars that the Urgent Optimists regularly offers, I learned about MidJourney. And the moment I joined the open beta community run on Discord, I became so into it that I didn’t want to leave. What’s it about? MidJourney is an AI that generates art from your text prompts, a text-to-image tool. Read more
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