"In 1996, you had the Internet disrupting consumerism and enterprise infrastructure," Tai says.
Shot like a silent film, the black-and-white video features director K8 Howl trapped inside a giant abandoned mall that seems to represent the internet, or consumerism, or both.
Consumerism Internet-Style Businesses worldwide know that the old ways of marketing are dead.
English, the author argues convincingly in "Globish," will not break up into new languages and die, as Latin did, because it is sustained by the Internet, global marketing, mass consumerism, instant communications, international soccer, texting, and (McCrum is English) cricket and the legacy of Winston Churchill.
In the cranky middle-aged person's version (to which I am susceptible, on days when I've been sitting in traffic for too long), this town was once a verdant community of underemployed hippies and punks, of guitars and cut-offs and grungy night clubs, until it was overrun by tech workers and CrossFit nuts, ruined by new construction, consumerism, the Internet, and a plague of small plates.
Quality insights on employment, consumerism, the internet and Americas obsession with convenience sum this thing up.
Quality insights on employment, consumerism, the internet and America's obsession with convenience sum this thing up.
Mocking faddy internet culture and rampant consumerism is a bit less interesting, funny, and incisive when you've decided to take the money and run.
The setting is North Carolina, generally (Spencer lives in Chapel Hill), and the time the present, but it is a present largely stripped of noise and flash (consumerism, the Internet), where the most compelling dynamics unfold between parents and children, husbands and wives.
And that's sort of the point of Pinterest, a site Silbermann likes to call "a catalogue of ideas", but which offers a vision of the internet as a temple to consumerism.
