062 - Mount Stupid (with Georgia Frances King, Quartz)

Jacky Winter Gives You The Business

This week! We’re going through our open tabs and will be discussing Cultural Discourse, The Rise of Custom Type Design, and welcoming our new chatbot overlords..

Helping us bring some outside perspective today is our special guest Georgia Frances King.

Georgia is an editor born in Melbourne and currently based in New York. A New York Times best-selling editor, she has lead international teams of award-winning journalists, moderated blockchain panels at the UN, and spoken about primal psychology at Creative Mornings. Formerly the editor of the award-winning design magazine Kinfolk, she has fused her background in lifestyle journalism with her passion for emerging technology. As Quartz’s ideas editor, she aims to bring a quality-of-life focus to the future’s most pressing topics and translate dense, academic subjects into engaging content through op-eds on qz.com. She’s fresh back in town after a trip to Dubai for the World Economic Forum’s Annual Convening of the Global Future Councils, because, of course, she sits on their quantum computing council.

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Lara

Un-Fluent and Proud
https://medium.com/@h.egnew/un-fluent-and-proud-b904b40e7ef7

James Paul Gee- Discourses and Literacies
https://jamespaulgee.com/

Five methods for turning invisible, ranked by the inventor of a real-life invisibility cloak
https://qz.com/1105538/five-methods-for-turning-invisible-ranked-by-the-inventor-of-a-real-life-invisibility-cloak/amp/

Jeremy

Why are tech companies making custom typefaces?
https://www.arun.is/blog/custom-typefaces/

Commercial Type
https://commercialtype.com/

Dave Foster
https://www.fostertype.com/

Kinfolk
https://kinfolk.com/

Frankie
https://www.frankie.com.au/

Quartz
https://qz.com/

Typographica Survey
https://typographica.org/features/our-favorite-typefaces-of-2017/

10,000 Original Copies
https://klim.co.nz/blog/10000-original-copies/

Georgia

May A.I. help you? Intelligent chatbots could automate away nearly all of our commercial interactions — for better or for worse.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/11/14/magazine/tech-design-ai-chatbot.html

Quartz Brief app
https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/quartz-brief/id1076683233?mt=8

The New York Times Magazine- The Tech and Design Issue
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/11/16/magazine/tech-design-medicine-phenome.html

Woebot
https://woebot.io/

We tested bots like Siri and Alexa to see who would stand up to sexual harassment
https://qz.com/911681/we-tested-apples-siri-amazon-echos-alexa-microsofts-cortana-and-googles-google-home-to-see-which-personal-assistant-bots-stand-up-for-themselves-in-the-face-of-sexual-harassment/amp/

Alexa makes decision-making easier than ever—by making your choices for you
https://qz.com/1323884/alexa-makes-decision-making-easier-than-ever-by-making-your-choices-for-you/amp/

Georgia's Socials

Georgia’s Twitter
https://twitter.com/georgiafrancesk?lang=en

Quartz
https://qz.com/

Thumbs Up / Thumbs Down / Shaka

Crazy Aaron’s Thinking Putty
https://puttyworld.com/

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