You cannot be serious?

TARS: I have a cue light I can use to show you when I’m joking, if you like.
Cooper: That might help.
TARS: Yeah, you can use it to find your way back to the ship after I blow you out the airlock.
[cue light flashes]

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Nosy algorithms and secret sauces

Videos, despite being mightily powerful business tools for engagement and persuasion are, frankly, dumb beasts.

For all their walkie-talkie pfazz, they are black boxes.

Worse: they suffer from their own form of Locked-In Syndrome. Once viewed. They then close up. You know their name. But not what’s going on inside.

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