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1/ Story/narrative time! I can share a unique perspective around the recent "Rayban Stories" Facebook smartglasses release. I've taken hundreds of thousands of photos (and some video clips) using a wearable, (inconspicuous) automatic camera for 3 years ()
2/ From 2012 to its demise in 2016, I did sales/biz dev/"special projects" at @getnarrative, a startup that launched its Kickstarter juuust in the wake of the first Google Glass announcement: kickstarter.com/projects/marti…
3/ For more context, the NSA Prism news (Snowden's reveal of state surveillance) and the first season of Black Mirror (including this episode: ) happened around our launch. instagram.com/p/mu5jyEOPgV/
"You don't see radio changing gradually and suddenly become radar. #Darwin's theory doesn't work for #technology, and we have to make a new observation."
- W Brian Arthur at SFI today
#evolution #innovation #invention
- W Brian Arthur at SFI today
#evolution #innovation #invention
"Novel technologies are constructed from existing technologies. These offer themselves as components for the construction of further technologies."
- W Brian Arthur at SFI today
#evolution #innovation #invention #technology #engineering #design
- W Brian Arthur at SFI today
#evolution #innovation #invention #technology #engineering #design
Unlike the two-parent #inheritance typical to (but not ubiquitous among) #complex organisms, #technology inherits features from n parents - a "vast ancestral #network" more like horizontal gene transfer networks in #bacteria.
W Brian Arthur on sumulating #invention on a chip:
W Brian Arthur on sumulating #invention on a chip:
