Explaining Culture to Technology, Paul Ford | Compile 26

Explaining Culture to Technology, Paul Ford | Compile 26

Paul Ford, Co-founder of Aboard, on what technologists can learn from how magazines actually work, and why culture is a distributed, lossy prediction model rather than its output. 00:00 Explaining culture to technology 00:58 How a magazine actually works 03:09 Rhetoric greater than facts 04:03 What culture is 05:27 A model of consciousness 06:15 Culture as an operating system 07:17 The tech industry and risk