Author: jesse

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    Are you addicted to the Internet?

    Oct 16, 2014 1:14pm | by jesse

    Maslow’s hierarchy of needs is a concept in psychology that describes the series of conditions that humans need to be happy and healthy. Represented by a pyramid, the concept has been modified by many on the internet who place wifi or connectivity as the new base by which we can measure basic human needs. While […]

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    Avatar Secrets and Life After Digital are live

    Oct 15, 2014 1:30pm | by jesse

    Avatar Secrets is now available in Canada via the App Store Life After Digital is available via TVO Related posts: The Agenda: Avatar Secrets & Life After Digital Almost ready to launch Join the conversation via #tvofuturenow What does it mean to live in two places simultaneously?

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    Almost ready to launch

    Oct 1, 2014 3:38pm | by jesse

    Future Now is an exciting fusion of the issues contained in two exciting documentary projects, Avatar Secrets, and Life After Digital. We’ve spent the better part of the summer designing, researching, and now writing content to help extend ideas, concepts, and debates beyond these two documentaries into the broader web and public discourse. We hope […]

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    Love in the era of the internet is complicated

    Sep 21, 2014 8:33pm | by jesse

    Love in the era of the internet is complicated. That should come as a surprise to no one. The desire to find and share our lives with others is never ending, and the power to do so exponentially increases in the digital age. We’re no longer limited to the prospective matches in our village or […]

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    Nothin’s ever free. Read the fine print. Did you just give it away?

    Sep 21, 2014 6:23pm | by jesse

    While it may be absurd to think we will read the complicated legalese that comprise usage agreements and terms of services, we are bound to them anyhow, and from this sweeping social contract the companies behind them make millions. Have you ever stopped to think about how much your data is worth? Take a moment […]

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    What does it mean to live in two places simultaneously?

    Sep 21, 2014 6:02pm | by jesse

    What does it mean to live in two places simultaneously? This is a question we could ask the teenager of generations passed who spent their social time on the telephone rather than at the five and dime. Electronic communication and then digital communication has allowed our voice and our imagination to travel elsewhere while the […]