Disruption Theory: Recent Episodes
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Exploring how the intersection of emerging technology and design is shaping our future. Watch all videos on Youtube. Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/disruptiontheory/support
Jason made headlines recently for using Midjourney AI to generate an art series that won first place in the “Digitally Manipulated Photography” category at Colorado State Fair, beating 20 artists to the prize.
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Exploring why malls are a scarce psychological resource and how to preserve them Follow on TikTok & Instagram: Disruption Theory Twitter: @SvilenK Podcast available on all platforms.
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How the viral meme rapper Hank Trill disrupted the music industry and launched a music career from his iPad in his bedroom, quit his job and got the attention of A-list rappers.
We talked about:
04:17 - How Hank Trill blew up on TikTok
10:47 - How he made his biggest mixtape in one day
11:44 - Recording process: gear and equipment
13:23 - Monetization and launching a record label
14:50 - Famous rappers who listen to Hank Trill
16:10 - What is "meme rap" and how it started
17:00 - Legal issues with impersonating famous characters?
22:44 - Who's the inspiration behind Hank Trill?
24:24 - Hank Trill's advice for upcoming artists
Pardon the technical difficulties, experimenting with new workflow
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Sharing my frustrations with traditional media as a content creator, and exploring how Web 3 could resolve them:
01:47 What is Web 3?
07:23 My problem with Instagram
10:54 How Youtube rug pulled Terms of Services on creators
14:05 How Jay-Z was ahead of his time with Tidal
15:11 How YouTube allows alternate career paths
25:41 What is the Network Effect?
32:57 Snapchats biggest innovation
38:23 Proposed metric for media consumption
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Exploring the positive and negative implications of image generating AI
0:02:08 - Is AI capable of imagination?
0:12:25 - How the business of Large Language Models could play out
0:14:36 - How every wave of decentralization centralizes power
0:17:16 - How AI could be used for mass disinformation campaigns
0:22:25 - The challenges of AI created videos
0:25:28 - Can AI create 3D objects for AR / VR / Metaverse?
0:28:24 - "Should I go to school for Graphic Design?"
0:31:22 - How intellectual property laws could hurt creators
0:40:29 - The "Artisanal Effect" and cultural rejection of AI art
0:47:28 - Danger of developing intimate relationships with AI
0:56:34 - How Marketers could weaponize AI against us
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On July 1st, 2021 I tweeted that I created the TikTok account @DesignSecretsss and will be posting (almost) everyday for a month, aiming for 10k followers by day 31. It turned out I was off 360,000.
I sat down with my boy Roberto to share the story.
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Dove into politics over vodka with a good friend of mine- the economist Mason Pazhawk, and discussed:
- How SpaceX could break China's great firewall, the philosophy of a Mars civilization
- Trump's unpredictability and the killing of general Qasem Soleimani
- How war could be fought in the future
- 2020 U.S. Election & Andrew Yang's Freedom Dividend (UBI)
- The raise and danger of micro-influencers
- My shift on Religion & GMO's over the last decade
- Escaping algorithmic determinism
- American suburb's lack of Third Places
- How the World runs on Narratives
Books Mentioned:
- 1984 by George Orwell - https://amzn.to/2vO4y6f
- The Lexus and the Olive Tree by Thomas Friedman - https://amzn.to/2SiIVCq
- The World Is Flat by Thomas Friedman - https://amzn.to/2UlzJQD
- The End of History by Francis Fukuyama - https://amzn.to/3b8jmwQ
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Had a few drinks too many with one of my best friends Chuck, who practices and teaches law, to discuss...
- Neuralink and Brain-Computer Interfaces
- Social media's unknown affects on society
- How "likes" are engineered to be addictive
- The FaceApp privacy scare and my proposed solution
- How iPhones could eavesdrop on your convos without mic access
- The dangers of early tech adoption
- The 2016 US Election hacking scandal
- The worrying increase of online censorship
- Producer Madlib creates entire album Bandana by Freddie Gibbs entirely on iPad
- How torrenting subsidized professional education
- Why parents should their kids PCs instead of iPads
- Why the blockchain might be the future of censorship-proof social media
- The sinister practice of "shadow banning"
- Possible regulation framework for algorithms
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References:
The Complete Guide to Brain-Computer Interfaces
Google Scholar Concept: Which studies are true?
Maybe It’s Time for App Nutritional Labels: FaceApp Cast Study
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With the drastic increase in mass shootings in the US, could Apple Watch help authorities identify incidents in real time?
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Sources:
https://dcist.com/story/17/10/12/shotspotter-data/
https://science.howstuffworks.com/shotspotter.htm
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/11/03/school-shooter-technology/18176599/
www.shotspotter.com
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Full Google Stadia Keynote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUih5...
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A concept for Google Scholar browser extension, full project at https://medium.com/@SvilenK
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Learn how mesh networking, blockchain and satellites could be the solution to Net Neutrality being repealed. Full Video at https://youtu.be/tn4CpdexEFc
SOURCES:
iOS7 introduces Multipeer connectivity-https://www.wired.com/2014/03/apple-multipeer-connectivity/
Firechat App downloaded 100K+ during Hong Kong protest https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/29/firechat-messaging-app-powering-hong-kong-protests
Castro hates the internet, so Cubans created their own by VOX: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFPjJM6yYS8
Meet the People Building Their Own Internet in Detroit by Motherboard: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1B0u6nvcTsI
CCC Hackerspace Grid Proposal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zA5rQWJeYho
Project Loon by Google https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOndhtfIXSY
Project Loon serves Puerto Rico Hurricane victims https://www.engadget.com/2017/11/09/project-loon-delivers-internet-100-000-people-puerto-rico/
SpaceX plans to launch first internet-providing satellites in 2019
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SOURCES
Apple Watch detects would-be fatal Pulmonary embolism http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2017/10/15/apple-watch-notification-helps-save-mans-life-would-have-fatal/
Apple Watch alerts teen of heart, liver and kidney failure http://abcnews.go.com/US/apple-watch-saved-teens-life/story?id=33944550
Apple Watch alerts user of heart attack https://www.cultofmac.com/417649/apple-watch-saves-man-from-heart-attack/
Future of Apple Watch Heart Attack https://www.forbes.com/sites/larryhusten/2014/02/17/no-an-apple-device-wont-tell-you-if-youre-having-a-heart-attack/#c82c52154280
Apple testing glucose monitor in Apple Watch https://www.macrumors.com/2017/05/15/apple-watch-glucose-monitoring-smart-bands/
Apple Watch has most accurate heart detection https://www.macrumors.com/2017/05/24/apple-watch-heart-rate-most-accurate-fitness-study/
Stanford looking for innovative uses for Apple Watch in Healthcare https://www.macrumors.c
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SOURCES
Drone criminal trespassing in Tennessee http://www.local8now.com/home/headlines/Drone-leads-to-criminal-case-over-privacy-in-Middle-Tennessee-305910091.html
DJI drone autonomous tracking https://www.theverge.com/2016/3/1/11134130/dji-phantom-4-drone-autonomous-avoidance-tracking-price-video
Apple patent to block camera functionality using beacons http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=9,380,225&OS=9,380,225&RS=9,380,225
Eclipse yacht houses an anti-photo shield https://www.wired.com/2009/09/russian-billionaire-installs-anti-photo-shield-on-giant-yacht/
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SOURCES:
Atheist blogger who spoke out against radical Islam hacked to death in Bangladesh
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/atheist-blogger-hacked-death-bangladesh-article-1.2592051
Saudi high court upholds prison term, 1,000 lashes http://www.cnn.com/2015/06/08/middleeast/saudi-blogger-flogging-sentence-upheld/index.html
Lorenzo Valla's stylometric investigation of Donation of Constantine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donation_of_Constantine#Investigation
William Shakespeare's lost 18th Century play Double Falsehood 'not a hoax' http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturenews/7450874/Shakespeare-18th-Century-work-Double-Falsehood-is-his-lost-play.html
Bitcoin whitepaper stylometric analysis suggesting Nick Szabo is author https://likeinamirror.wordpress.com/2013/12/01/satoshi-nakamoto-is-probably-nick-szabo/
Demo of IBM Watson's Personality Insights https://pe
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SOURCES
A.I. can assess patients' pain levels with better accuracy than humans just by examining facial expressions https://www.newscientist.com/article/2146094-computer-knows-how-much-pain-you-are-in-by-studying-your-face/
Our faces reliably reveal whether we're rich or poor due to visible facial muscles ingrained over time as a result of repeated life experiences http://www.unipaper.co.uk/article/our-faces-reliably-reveal-whether-were-rich-or-poor-due-to-visible-muscles
Stanford A.I. experiment can distinguish between gay and straight face with up to 91% accuracy https://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21728614-machines-read-faces-are-coming-advances-ai-are-used-spot-signs
Backlash from LGBT community over Stanford “Gaydar" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/sep/08/ai-gay-gaydar-algorithm-facial-recognition-criticism-stanford
10 Nations with death
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