Often what “humanizes” technology most are the creative uses people put it to
As Silicon Valley startups race to develop the next generation of online marketing tools – new software based on sophisticated algorithms that will leverage the information of Facebook’s soon-to-be 1 billion users to put products in front of just the right consumer at just the right moment, it’s instructive to note the success of Thinkmodo – a viral marketing firm that films all its videos on iphones, does no market testing, and doesn’t even mention the name of the product in its campaigns.
It isn’t that Thinkmodo doesn’t use cutting-edge technology. Without YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook, viral marketing wouldn’t exist. What’s interesting is that their success relies as heavily on ancient storytelling elements – humor, surprise, suspense, wonder – as it does on the power of the internet. Its campaigns are carefully orchestrated happenings designed to engage people’s natural curiosity.
Case in point: a recent campaign for the film Limitless, built around a technological hoax – a guy who claimed to be able to control all the video screens in Times Square with a device he’d built for his iPhone.
via BigThinkᔥ
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