After Dark: "You're Not A Visionary, You're A Vendor"

About this episode

The episode discusses various cultural and technological topics, including an AI agent's creation of a fake product and the role of media as a visionary force.

Get all After Dark releases by joining Future Commerce Plus: www.futurecommerce.com/plus. Future Commerce Plus members get 20% off STRATA: www.futurecommerce.com/strata. An AI agent burns $12 building a fake Android phone nobody asked for. From there: Pope Leo's encyclical, a tick crisis blamed on vanishing chickens, a website that's cookied Phillip into Spanish forever, and The Devil Wears Prada 2, feat. why media was the visionary all along.

People in this episode

Hosts: Phillip Jackson, Brian Lange

Topics covered

• AI
• media
• entrepreneurship
• cultural commentary
• technology
• marketing

Keywords

• AI agent
• Pope Leo
• STRATA
• The Devil Wears Prada 2
• cultural commentary
• marketing
• entrepreneurship

Sponsors

Future Commerce Plus, STRATA

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Future Commerce Plus

Products: STRATA

Books & works: The Devil Wears Prada 2

Places: Spanish

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