Adobe makes changes to its terms of service: Creatives will have none of that nonsense!
The dust-up began with concerns about content access.
The revised wording seemed to grant Adobe expansive rights to peek into users’ creative treasure chests. Creatives worried that their precious work could be used for purposes far beyond what Adobe initially explained. Was this a prelude to a future where Adobe could pilfer their ideas and content to fuel their fancy new AI art tools and definitively replace creatives? The lack of clarity fueled the fire.
A note to my friends who believe school is a scam: No, it isn’t a scam!
Misleading people in the name of opinion is unethical and should be avoided at all cost. If you feel strongly about an opinion, test it out within safety and ethical boundaries.
Brain-Computer Interfaces: The Next Frontier for Human-Computer Interaction?
Whilst the full implications of these advancements are being debated, policies to guide the use of such are yet to be crafted – either because as is often the case innovation leapfrogs policy and governance or because the general implications of these advancements are yet to be fully understood or appreciated, one wonders if these advancements wouldn’t lead to further divide amongst the world’s population, similar to the digital divide occasioned by the evolution of digital.
Is it nurture? Is it nature? Sometimes, we would not know, and that’s good enough
General observation: Each time I travel, I bring with mementoes (usually inexpensive) gifts for each person in the household as well as friends and family. Something to tell them they were on my mind during my trip. My wife does the same. My closest friends do the same. I have observed my siblings do the […]
My strength – perhaps my weakness too
Yeah – I know that quip so well. Make your weakness sound like a strength wearing a veil. So we go: I am a workaholic. I know I should do more to balance work and life, but I can not just stop myself whenever I have a deadline. Truth is, a lot of people have […]
There is more to life than being right… than winning… than being the star of the moment
To be right. To win. To be the reigning star of the minute. Winning, being right all the time, being seen as the star of the moment, all have benefits. At a minimum, we are flooded with the good hormone: dopamine; in the instant. But at what cost? The cost of burning important bridges? Of […]
Something on thoughtfulness
For the most part, I didn’t set out to be a thoughtful person. It came natural. A consequence of trying to be a decent human. I recall one of my first experiences of being called thoughtful. My friend, who was quite older sent me a message that he has lost his father. Tradition demands a […]
There are two sides to a coin, six to a cube…
Indeed, it won’t be in our generally accepted definition of a coin if it has one side or three, or four, or ten sides. It will be something else. It won’t be a cube, if it only has 5 sides, or 25. That is the power of context. Of convention. Of what has been agreed. […]
A thing or two about vanity metrics
Vanity metrics mean or measure nothing. Well, except to stoke ego of those reporting these vain metrics or used to hide a problem. Whilst saying your company moved goods worth US$ 6Billion in the first quarter of 2020, sounds good to the ears, it really doesn’t say much. Except, if your shareholders have invested in […]
From ‘calling to action’ to getting ‘the action’ – automate as much as you can and reduce attrition
I see some facebook Ads (I won’t be surprised if the same happens across channels open to these ‘culprits’), asking users to make a phone call and listing a name and a telephone number to call. That is so paper age – remember the days we are handed fliers in traffic and we have to […]