J. Manfred Weichsel on Twitter: "1/ Native New Yorker and I can explain it. First, a question for point of reference. Without googling it, do you know what “look books” were?" / Twitter

J. Manfred Weichsel

@ JonWeichsel

Jun 8

8/ Both of these polaroids end up in a look book and the message is that next season, dinosaurs are going to be in. So if you want to sell movie tickets, it would be a good bet to make a dinosaur movie. This was the kind of decision making that went into making Jurassic Park.

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J. Manfred Weichsel

@ JonWeichsel

Jun 8

13/ These corporations didn’t understand about algorithms and how social media pushes certain information to certain people. They thought that what they were seeing on social media was the same thing as what everybody else sees on social media. It is a common mistake.

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J. Manfred Weichsel

@ JonWeichsel

Jun 8

16/ New York Corporate leaders are not as sophisticated as you would suspect, and by using social media to gauge what the country was thinking without understanding the mechanics of social media, they inadvertently became brainwashed by social media.

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