“As our own species is in the process of proving, one cannot have superior science and inferior morals. The combination is unstable and self-destroying” Arthur C. Clarke. When I was teaching my university environmental Studies introduction class, many of the students named it the ‘doom and gloom’ class because of Read more…
“The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he did not exist.” This is a great line from the movie, The Usual Suspects. Without giving the story line away, it is a great story about how people get bamboozled. Today, the mainstream media and the corporate systems Read more…
Your beliefs are just thoughts that you keep thinking. Yet, they are so entrenched in most of our psyches, that we take them to be literal descriptors of who we come to think we are. This is how we are conditioned to be the people we think we are. Wherever Read more…
As I said in the last post, Audience Analysis is good communications technique for well thought out and well-crafted ‘honest’ messaging. Now using data sets from social media platforms with negatively fear based invented news and misinformation has turned it into something resembling an Orwellian control system. We hear a Read more…
Collecting data about people has long been a primary goal of the advertising industry, e.g. The Madison Avenue crowd. The more you know about potential customers, the more closely you can match your advertising to their interests and preferences. This is true for any kind of communications messaging – it’s Read more…
“Don’t say anything online that you wouldn’t want plastered on a billboard with your face on it” Erin Bury I just spent three weeks in the Silicon Valley area of California. I toured the Facebook campus and ran through the Google campus as well as wandered around Stanford University – Read more…