tech – Jonathan Frei https://jonathanfrei.com Based on a true story Tue, 04 Nov 2014 15:35:43 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.1 https://i0.wp.com/jonathanfrei.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/favicon-160x1601.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 tech – Jonathan Frei https://jonathanfrei.com 32 32 76405128 Introducing Carrot https://jonathanfrei.com/2014/10/introducing-carrot https://jonathanfrei.com/2014/10/introducing-carrot#respond Mon, 20 Oct 2014 19:08:09 +0000 http://jonathanfrei.com/?p=4113 Many landing pages for new tech products follow a very standard layout and structure. It’s one that Apple popularized, and that others have copied repeatedly.

Introducing Carrot pokes fun at the trope, showcasing the familiar vegetable in the popular product marketing format of the day. Here’s the pitch:

Carrot is designed with you in mind. It’s a seamless experience, meticulously crafted, from beginning to end. It’s not just a vegetable, it’s what a vegetable should be.

This is some clever work by Dan Angelucci, who says it will “massively disrupt the vegetable sector.” (HT Adactio)

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Wow. The Internet is a busy busy busy place. But it belongs to Google and Facebook. And email.

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mrgan:

“Work” icon

I don’t even recognize the first two icons.

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David Auerbach in n+1 :

The good news is that, because computers cannot and will not “understand” us the way we understand each other, they will not be able to take over the world and enslave us (at least not for a while). The bad news is that, because computers cannot come to us and meet us in our world, we must continue to adjust our world and bring ourselves to them. We will define and regiment our lives, including our social lives and our perceptions of our selves, in ways that are conducive to what a computer can “understand.” Their dumbness will become ours.

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David Auerbach in n+1 :

The good news is that, because computers cannot and will not “understand” us the way we understand each other, they will not be able to take over the world and enslave us (at least not for a while). The bad news is that, because computers cannot come to us and meet us in our world, we must continue to adjust our world and bring ourselves to them. We will define and regiment our lives, including our social lives and our perceptions of our selves, in ways that are conducive to what a computer can “understand.” Their dumbness will become ours.

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