art Archives - The Sociable

Technology

Canvia’s new Kickstarter brings art into the modern world of technology

Sam Brake Guia4 years ago

10.5K

Art is a hobby and skill dating back to human's earliest days, which has been demonstrated by simple yet captivating...

Technology

Becoming a digital artist and how to promote your work

Sam Brake Guia4 years ago

9.99K

What do you desire? This was a question posed by the famous British philosopher Alan Watts, and as you can see...

Entertainment

When art meets technology, sparks fly!

Sam Brake Guia4 years ago

9.9K

Art - "The expression or application of human creative skill and imagination, typically in a visual form such as painting...

Entertainment

Palacio Inc. Launches Canvia, A Smart Digital Display That Makes Any Art Look Like A High Quality Print

Sam Brake Guia4 years ago

9.67K

Palacio Inc. has recently announced the launch of Canvia, a smart art frame that uses the confluence of innovative technologies,...

Technology

Photojournalist uses VR in war exhibition to ‘expand moral imagination’

The Sociable5 years ago

3.07K

Virtual Reality isn’t a mere fad which will come and go - it is technology that will soon turn empirical...

Business

Art as a career? The plight of discouraged young artists

Sam Brake Guia5 years ago

6.38K

When we think of fresh, new startups that are disrupting traditional industries, we often hear common adjectives thrown in front...

Technology

Digital ownership issues at the intersection of art and technology

Zac Laval5 years ago

11.5K

For artists, technology has raised a number of questions regarding digital ownership. In the not too distant past, determining ownership...

Technology

What price tag do we have on our private data? A London artist’s social experiment

Omar Elorfaly5 years ago

2.05K

More often than not we see big tech corporations as the "big bad wolf" for using our private data, but...

Technology

Bit.Fall turns news into rain and water into pixels

Piers Dillon Scott11 years ago

2.69K

Dublin might have been inundated with a month's worth of rain in a single day last week but that's not the only water-related event that's been getting Dubliners' talking. This water-based news reader has been catching people's attention.

Brains Byte Back

We explore how our brains, psychology, and society are impacted by the ever-evolving technology that surrounds us. If you want to be better prepared for the new information age, have a healthier relationship with technology, and get more out of life using top technology and psychology hacks, this is the podcast for you! Every other Friday we bring you interviews with leading experts in the fields of technology and psychology combined, with past guest speakers such as New York Times journalists, MIT Professors, and C-suite executives of top tech companies.

Episode Description below⬇️

Leave an iTunes review here – https://apple.co/3i60XWu

Subscribe on Youtube here – https://bit.ly/3o1M4Z3

Less than 9% of the 300 million tonnes of plastic produced every year is actually recycled. In order to change this, we must first see a change in consumer behavior.

In today’s episode of the Brains Byte Back podcast, we explore how the Everything as a Service (XaaS) economy stands to be a vital tool to create a more sustainable society, alongside how this economy is impacting consumer culture on a wider level.

To do this we are joined by Lincoln Lincoln, Head of Global Sales & Customer Success at CloudBlue.

We kick off the show by discussing the rise of subscription services, and Lincoln shares the example of Stellantis, a global automaker that he claims generates 20% of its revenue from subscription services for its cars.

With this new approach to a subscription-based model, Lincoln argues that the days of buying a car with a one-time purchase and watch it depreciate as you drive it out of the forecourt are over.

He also shares how features in cars are now sold as subscriptions, such as BMW announcing that heated seats can now be used as a pay-as-you-go service, so you can turn it on during winter, and off during the summer. Meaning you only pay for what you want, when you want it.

Additionally Lincoln highlights how the XaaS economy is raising our expectations and demands as consumers.

He draws on the example of the exercise bike company Peloton, and advocates that no longer do we buy a simple exercise bike, but we now expect this bike to challenge our fitness goals and produce content that motivates us.

And finally, we discuss how subscription services stand to increase sustainability by encouraging the production of products that stand the test of time, and discourage models such as planned obsolescence.

Lincoln advocates that this is because in this modern economy, rather than selling a product as a one-time purchase, when it is sold as a subscription, the consumer benefits because they pay as they go, and the manufacturer is encouraged to create an asset or product that works for as long as possible.