Don’t Fear the Increasing Application of Artificial Intelligence in the Corporate World Because It’s All Powerful, Fear It Because It’s Shit. The corporate hype and appetite around Artificial Intelligence abounds with pace, mostly in the absence of an informed appraisal of the limits of technology with regard to automation and the dehumanisation of particular forms of work, particularly knowledge or creative work. Or anything involving interpretation (like research!).

Or: Yeah, simplicity is cool but have you ever tried providing detailed descriptions of everyday life or professional practice? — “Details are dismissed as unimportant, expertise as irrelevant. People who complicate things — which might be a good definition of an expert — are viewed with suspicion.” Ian Leslie I have had a few twitter discussions (recently with Thomas Geoghegan & Faris) around the idea that “people who work in…

Or Why Resisting Managerial Agendas Might Make More Meaningful Market Research “Magical, fantastic, dreamlike experiences are almost by definition unpredictable. … Both control and the nonhuman technologies that produce control tend to be inimical to enchantment. … Fantastic experiences can go anywhere; anything can happen. Such unpredictability clearly is not…

There is a line I love in Adrian Shaughnessy’s design bible Graphic Design: A User’s Manual. It reads: “The single most important thing to remember when presenting work to clients is that they are terrified of what they are going to be shown.” It captures perfectly the fear of the…

‘Digital’ is, in terms of language, a legacy issue. Nothing dates us more than the degree to which we recall the primacy of an analogue world through language. …

Before you begin, in case the use of Danny Dyer’s image hasn’t made it sufficiently clear, I should point out that the initial discussion of Brand Solipsism and the Big.I.Am Index© is a little tongue-in-cheek, although — as always — all of the data is real! However, the ensuing discussion…

Like most people, I spent the long weekend exploring how a selection of Irish brands used twitter and considering the impact organisational cultures have on twitter use, and disuse. …

February 2018 With most parties on a quasi-election footing, it is an interesting time to be writing about political communications in Ireland, particularly those of opposition parties. This is an article about the language used by Irish political parties on twitter, particularly opposition parties. That political parties choose to use…