Scary thought—machines are rewiring our neural pathways, driving the transitional phase in our part-cyber, part-human evolution. In this new Age of Enlightenment, we are all digital sinners. Maybe your sin is laziness, lust for the next […]
The Agency of Now
Month: March 2015
SXSW Interactive: 3 Key Takeaways
Anyone who attended this year’s SXSW Interactive Festival knows that information overload is a calculated side effect of the many meet-ups, demonstrations, and mind-blowing panels. To help you digest, here are three themes that echoed […]
Includification and Beer Drinking Mode: Accessibility in Gaming at PAX East
Fire Hose Games’ video game Slam Bolt Scrappers has a lot of moving pieces—literally. In the game, players control avatars that float over a cityscape, fighting each other over colored Tetris blocks used to construct […]
Wu-Tang Storytelling For Advertisers
While at SXSW recently, I had the opportunity to watch Wu-Tang Clan founding member and budding film director RZA deliver one of the festival’s keynote speeches. RZA is well known in hip hop as both a producer […]
Google[X] at SxSW – Unlocking Innovation
Dr. Astro Teller is the Captain of Google[X], AKA “the Moon Shot Factory.” The mission of the Moon Shot Factory is to aim for achievements that are 10 times better than average, not just for […]
Black Enterprise Women of Power Summit
When Sandra Sims-Williams (Chief Diversity Officer, Publicis Groupe), extended the invitation to attend the 2015 Black Enterprise Women of Power Summit (BEWPS), we expected that we’d listen to a couple of good speakers and network a […]
From Responsive Design to Responsive Thinking
An interviewer once asked world-renowned architect Frank Gehry about his approach to designing buildings. Gehry responded that he doesn’t design buildings; rather he designs the spaces in between buildings. An interesting answer that rings true […]
Digital Diversity: How Culture Impacts Digital
We’ve all heard the stats—multicultural populations are outpacing the growth of the general population, and digital trends are no different. While at SxSW, Facebook’s Christian Martinez, Head of US Multicultural Sales, and Virginia Lennon, SVP, […]
SXSW: Here Goes Nothing!
From before the plane touched down on Texan soil, you could sense a certain energy flowing around our SXSW-bound airbus. Sleepy row mates soon became partners in practicing their pitches. Phone numbers, Twitter handles and LinkedIn […]
Google Health Knowledge Graph—Implications for Pharma
An introduction by Chris Everly, Vice President, SEO: Back in 2012, Google launched what they called their “Knowledge Graph.” It provided additional information about certain search queries that appeared to the right of the search results. The […]