Most of us love to listen to music. Some of us love to record, catalog and categorize every little thing we do every day. At the...
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The Sound of Silence: Rediscovering Boredom in a Noisy World
Do you get the feeling of being busy all day, watching television, scrolling to TikTok and studying online? I have this feeling of the need of...
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Recently, I was looking for a recipe to make a mousse for my brother’s birthday. For a few months we’ve been exchanging an idea of a...
Continue reading...Algorithms and Short-Form Content
Short form content is everywhere nowadays, with Tiktok, Instagram reels and Youtube shorts seemingly grabbing our collective attention span with an iron fist. At least that’s...
Continue reading...Music Streaming: A Perspective
I sometimes wonder how people like my dad viewed music when he was my age. These days, I can open Spotify and listen to anything from...
Continue reading...Trump 2016: How Cambridge Analytica breached data privacy ethics to help Trump win.
Introduction At the time of writing this, the 2024 US presidential election is just around the corner. With Trump facing off against Harris, it is a...
Continue reading...Algocracy: Government by Algorithm
I am a simple man; when I see a cat video coming by on YouTube shorts recommendations I click on it. For a whole 25 seconds,...
Continue reading...Technological evolution meets modern medicine: Neuralink’s brain chip
Back in the day, the idea of controlling computers with our minds seemed just far from reality. The only times we saw something like that was...
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The Twitch Streamer as a Digital Jester
We all know the image of the court jester: a funny little guy dressed in bright colors and a silly hat, maybe doing a weird-looking dance...
Continue reading...Kidfluencers: The New Generation of Child Stars
Kids are becoming social media stars, often without understanding the impact. Parents of “kidfluencers” profit from their children’s online presence, but unlike child actors, these kids lack protections. The result? A childhood turned into a performance, with lasting emotional and financial consequences.
Continue reading...Brains of the World, and Degradation of Programming!
One of the most heard words, if not the most heard word, in the programming scenery is ‘create’, along with its inflections. However, only a programmer...
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Chasing Fame in the Digital Age
And boom you’re famous. It happens all the time on the internet nowadays. especially with social media like TikTok. Some of my friends experienced this when...
Continue reading...Secularisation, Individualism and ChatGPT
For the vast majority of human history, we lived in relatively small communities, often with only minor religious differences that made it easy to communicate with...
Continue reading...A Black Hole: The Apple Ecosystem
It would be fair to say that many companies develop their ecosystems within their digital products. One of the most commonly recognized ones is The Apple...
Continue reading...Byte-Sized History: Key Milestones in Digital Media
Since harnessing the power of digits, we’ve been able to do a bunch of cool stuff with it. It hasn’t even been 100 years, and we’ve...
Continue reading...Digital VS Analog: Music
I am once again back in my room, typing on my computer. As per usual, I have put on a record to listen to as I...
Continue reading...A mobile game made me feel old
After I just finished reading some mandatory literature in the university library, I walked down to the cafeteria to eat my lunch. As I start eating...
Continue reading...My Digital Nostalgia
On our Christmas holiday we went to California with the whole family. My brother who is three years older than me saved up a lot of...
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