Context to this post here. On Friday I was invited into Google Labs New York and given the opportunity to try out Glass. I declined. Here’s why. There are …
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Things that are close enough to other things that we can make the social excuse to use one other the other. WC signs at the …
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Rules. Guide-lines. How you see the world. How your vehicle and the services it is connected to see the world. What a parking space has seen. The stories it would …
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Don’t get mad. Change the rules. The biggest frustration of using ZipCar is that the vehicle that you’ve booked has not been returned on time. Standing …
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It might seem counter-productive to travel half way across the world to observe or take part in an activity that we would otherwise try to …
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A small but significant social nudging behaviour by this street food seller next to Dongdaemon fabric market Seoul: as customers pass by she invites them …
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Some wonderful (paraphrased) quotes from the essay ‘The Camera Fiend‘ by Bill Jay on the early adoption of the camera, and in particular the rise …
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Smokers huddling around a smoking zone at the far end of a Shibuya train platform – a behaviour deemed as anti-social yet, by the very …
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For the next two hours this is my office – a sofa in the Lotus, located in a Omotesando back alley. I’ve spent the day …
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