Zag To The Zig #30 :: No more Moore, virtual escape rooms & Zoom-accounts for sale
💪 Oh, the skills you gather in life. The last few days, I’ve been drawing on my hands-on experience (admittedly, from yonks ago) with video, editing and creating digital content. Why? Well, I need to create an as-robust-as-possible set-up for remote teaching. Cables, new software platforms,… It was quite fun, you know. 💪
In the Economy Room
How is an industry like fashion affected by this pandemic-driven move to do everything digital? Sure, virtual fitting apps, but do skip to the part about designers selling virtual clothing items in the game Roblox. On average, a full-time accessories creator sells 26000$ a month!
Fashion Tech designer Chelsea Klukas decided to take another direction.
In the Tech basement
You may have heard about Moore’s Law, the fact that hardware manufacturers have been able to double the numbers of transistors on chips every 2 years. It’s been a key driver in tech because it means: harder-better-faster-stronger computers.
Now, MIT Tech Review argues that that growth is about to come to a natural halt and that is not good news for the tech industry.
In the Ethics corridor
Zoom is getting some stick for its privacy measures, but to be fair: part of it involves us users. This story about how you can buy Zoom accounts for pennies shows again the importance of using unique passwords,…
In a related story, I also came across this app that helps you see who has your data and how to manage/delete it. Will try.
Thoughtful piece on the deeper issues behind Corona-type pandemics. It’s not just that there are a lot of people, it’s also that we’ve increased consumption.
And if you’re in that broad-thinking systemic kind of mood, do dig into this 2-part piece by business designer/investor/former architect David Galbraith, in which he analyses the impact of the internet from his flow-system-thinking kind of perspective.
TLDR: it’s a little more fundamental than we read in the usual disruption-blah-blah articles. Part 1 gives context (skim the intro) and Part 2 gives 6 post-Corona scenarios. Take your time.I believe this is not just another phase of the industrial revolution as some historians have suggested, but a change as significant as the pivot from agrarian to industrial.
Random ZTTZ
Respect. This American young entrepreneur got so bored with the current stay-at-home vibe, he created an Escape Room game, in Google Docs.
🏁 End note: 1 thing I’ll be doing this week
I’ll be giving a workshop about the impact of tech and digital to a team of consultants. Remote. With breakout rooms and interactive sessions.
Doing information transfer remotely is not too difficult, but re-creating collaboration, feeling/keeping the energy,… is more challenging to think about. Let’s see how that feels and works out.