Michael Bierut, Jessica Helfand|Audio
April 5, 2018
Episode 78: Delete Your Account
The Cambridge Analytica story got Jessica to put her Facebook account “on pause,” as she says — or, as Facebook puts it, her “content isn’t available right now.” Yet most people keep using Facebook despite this latest violation of privacy, Michael says, because humans are social animals. “Most people don’t want to live like hermits.”
Also mentioned this week:
- Google Design, People and AI Research including The UX of AI
- Kevin Roose, NYT, Here Come the Fake Videos, Too
- Professor Buzzkill, The Hitler Jig
- Jon Christian, The Outline, Experts fear face swapping tech could start an international showdown
- From Russia With Love, Trump Edition
- Jon Bruner, Optimized for Engagement: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Entertainment
- Doll Hacking
- Kurt Vonnegut, Player Piano
- Highland Park, MI house listing via @manda_like_wine.
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By Michael Bierut & Jessica Helfand
Jessica Helfand, a founding editor of Design Observer, is an award-winning graphic designer and writer and a former contributing editor and columnist for Print, Communications Arts and Eye magazines. A member of the Alliance Graphique Internationale and a recent laureate of the Art Director’s Hall of Fame, Helfand received her B.A. and her M.F.A. from Yale University where she has taught since 1994.
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