32 Facts About the Digital World That We Could Sell You As E-Goods, But We’re in A Giving Mood Today
Don’t worry. These will not be NFTs (if those are even still a thing)
In a world where information is so readily available, we really have to spice ours up to get your sweet, sweet attention. Maybe we’ll help the cause by pandering to you and complimenting those striking eyeballs of yours. Wow! Look at those things. You think you’re the only one looking at these words, but they’re looking right back at you — and they like what they see!
Yikes! That came off a lot creepier than we intended. Now that we think about it, so did a lot of these digital entries. That seems like a common theme here in the digital world.
If we promise we’ll stop staring, will you check these out? They’re really interesting, and they have good intentions. We swear.
Reading Robots
Making Fake Bomb Threats
Trying to Storm Area 51
Pretending to Throw Acid in People’s Faces
Facebook and Divorce Filings
Dame Judi Dench’s TikTok Account
How Facebook Shrinks Your Brain
Biodata Collection
Facial Recognition in ‘Smart Cities’
Authoritarian Robot Dogs
Bespoke Sex Androids
The Scourge of Deepfakes
Browser Histories of Government Officials
Plate-Sized Computer Chips
Privacy Settings
Google’s Smart Speakers’ Trademark Infringement
The Plan to Use A.I. to Monitor Prisoner Phone Calls
Amazon’s Plan to Monitor Keyboard Strokes of Employees
COVID Scams
Record Speed for Spitting Out Digits of Pi
Ad Revenue on Sites That Pirate Movies
The Thing Ever Sold Online
Marlon Brando’s AOL Account
Bot Traffic
The First AOL IM
Neopets Creators
Google and Facebook’s Impact on the News
Etsy’s Definition of Handmade
The First YouTube Video
Lush’s Digital Detox
