The Serendipity Engine gets its first outing on Monday 8 August at The Driver in London at sameAs, an evening of conversation and intellectual stimulation. I’ll be presenting with my co-conspirator, Kat Jungnickel, who’ll also be showcasing her Enquiry machine with Julian McHardy. The three of us will be joined by Natalie Downe of Lanyrd.
Here’s the blurb:
This month’s sameAs will focus on the topic “serendipity” in the digital age, highlighting some of the top tool developers and thinkers dedicated to showing how the Web affects our chance encounters, conversations, how we interact with technology.In true sameAs spirit, we’re bringing together a diverse set of friends and experts to show the breadth of the subject. All are welcome.
The event starts at 7 and is free. They’re usually packed out, so come early!
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Just so you know Dr. Klotoski, I am now having a very difficult time thinking about anything except “serendipity”. One moment I agree with you, another moment I don’t. Up to now I’d considered the most important concept in digital culture to be emergence, but without serendipity what seems emergent may be a flawed understanding of events. What looks emergent could actually be a carefully crafted stealth marketing effort, and then when you consider that people are trying to engineer serendipity itself to what extant does an understanding of preferences and proclivities allow a marketer to back engineer that information into a product? Is art truly art if it has been thoroughly psychoanalyzed before it’s creation? If so, then where is the room for mad men like Van Gogh?
There’s a lot more I’d like to write on this here, but I won’t. Just know your ideas are torturing me.
I mean really, what is the digital equivalent of a hot bath?
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