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• 5 min
• Kinolab
• 2014

In this vignette, Matt describes his backstory as a member of an online community who used technology called “Z-eyes” to walk each other through activities such as flirting with women at bars. The Z-eyes technology directly streams all audiovisual data which his friend Harry experiences to his screen, and Matt is additionally able to use facial recognition and information searches to offer background information which enhances Harry’s plays.

• Data Privacy
• Edited Humans
• Computer Vision
• Brain-Computer Interfaces
• Data Streaming

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• 11 min
• Kinolab
• 2013

A CGI bear named Waldo is created using computer technology which sees the facial expressions of a comedian and renders it in real-time onto a screen. He is able to insult politicians with little retribution perhaps in part because he does not appear human. This power is harnessed by executives to put up Waldo as a candidate in a political race, where he is able to take part in a debate with real people and does not seem beholden to the same standards. Eventually, Waldo’s “driver” Jamie reveals his own identity, but Waldo continues on as a figure through embodying the voice of another worker in the company.

• Digital Media Misinformation
• Polarization
• Augmented Reality
• Data Streaming

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• 8 min
• Kinolab
• 2011

In this episode, a princess is kidnapped, and the condition of her release is that the prime minister, Michael Callow, is forced to have sexual intercourse with a pig on live television. While the news media originally wants to keep this incident quiet, digital reporting from other news companies in the US eventually forces the UKN to start a conversation about this event. After an attempt at using deep fake to make the deed appear done, the prime minister is quickly slandered on social media, and public opinion on him and if he should carry out the act shifts rapidly online. With this quick change in mood, the prime minister ultimately fulfills the request in full view of the entire world over the news.

• Cyber Crime
• Social Networks
• Data Streaming

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• 5 min
• Kinolab
• 2016

Westworld, a western-themed amusement park, is populated by realistic robotic creatures known as “hosts” that are designed in a lab and constantly updated to seem as real and organic as possible. Dr. Ford, the park director, speaks to his employee Theresa about his hegemony over Westworld, and how he can rule it as a sort of empire thanks to the subservience of the robots and the data collected from guests.

• Data Privacy
• Digital Divides and Inequality
• Data Mining
• Robots

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• 7 min
• The Washington Post
• 2013

Description of how targeted ads worked in the Obama re-election campaign, and why they were used. Specifically, the combination of the campaign buying advertising space in Google and ad companies tracking user activity across the web led to a robust targeted advertising campaign unlike anything seen before it.

• Data Privacy
• Data Mining

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• 3 min
• Kinolab
• 2018

Wade Watts lives in an imagined future in which the OASIS, a limitless virtual reality world, acts as a constant distraction from the real world for the majority of citizens. In this scene, his virtual avatar Parzival visits the Halliday Journals, a complete archive of the memories of James Halliday, the creator of the OASIS. These memories are digitized in their complete abstract form, and seem freely accessible to anyone.

• Data Privacy
• Scientific Innovation
• Brain-Computer Interfaces
• Virtual Reality