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WHATEVER ABOUT THE towering boxsets, the barely-thumbed-through tomes you picked up in the previous year, and the cinema releases you’ve yet to catch up with on DVD, get ready for a new onslaught of cultural experiences in 2014.
To help you make your way through what’s coming down the line, we’ve handpicked some choices for you, based on your tastes last year.
If you watched Borgen (or The Killing)… then you’ll watch The Bridge in 2014
(Nimbus Film/YouTube)
If you loved Girls… then you’ll want to watch Orange is the New Black in 2014
(Netflix/YouTube)
If you miss Breaking Bad… then start watching True Detective in 2014
(TVSeriesPreviews/YouTube)
If you loved Love/Hate… watch Amber in 2014
(BeyondHomeEntertain/YouTube)
If you loved In A World… then you’ll love The Grand Budapest Hotel in 2014
(FoxSearchlight/YouTube)
If you hated Django Unchained… then you’ll prefer 12 Years A Slave in 2014
(JoBlo.com/YouTube)
If you loved Blue Jasmine … then you’ll enjoy Inside Llewyn Davis in 2014
(ENTV/YouTube)
If you listened to Hozier… then you’ll want to hear The Gloaming in 2014
(Samuel Bishop/YouTube)
If you got tired of Miley Cyrus… then you’ll love Charli XCX in 2014
(officialcharlixcx/YouTube)
If you loved Villagers… then listen to James Vincent McMorrow in 2014
(jamesvmcmorrow/YouTube)
If you read Alex Ferguson's autobiography... then read Elk Stopped Play by Charlie Connelly in 2014
If you couldn't put down The Spinning Heart... then pick up From Out of the City by John Kelly in 2014
If you re-read For Whom the Bell Tolls (or any Hemingway classic)... then grab Mrs Hemingway by Naomi Wood in 2014
What books, films, tv shows, albums or otherwise are you looking forward to in 2014? Tell us in the comments.
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I think you should put IAB into the equation. I don’t recall reading on the Journal about last week’s news of the Belgian data protection supervisory authority (equivalent of the DPC) and their decision. It should be a wake up call. There is significant lobbying giving wrong advice such as allowing ‘legitimate interest’ on cookies. Cookie banner vendors not able to sell compliant products. Also, there is a large amount of personal data collected by google and sent outside the EU on most websites, used for google surveillance for ‘advertising’. A lot of enforcement could be sorted quickly.
AI is where tight regulations need to be implemented. I fear that AI will get so powerful, we will go past the point of rescue if it is not regulated soon.
@James Beattie: skynet
@James Beattie: if the GDPR was enforced, a lot would be covered. At present, before AI kicks in, there is massive amount of data unlawfully collected that no one has the guts to say to FB it should be deleted. Then there is profiling and transparency. Enforcement of these would help significantly.
The push is towards online regulation and silencing anyone that does not stick to the prevailing definition of “Good Information”, some people calling for it genuinely believe it will be a positive outcome, those people lack imagination.
The idea of defining if current technological development is good or bad is pointless, its how its used that defines that in practice, currently how profit driven corporations decide to use the data is the concern, but an AI is likely to make decisions based on criteria than we can’t even imagine, much less control.
Corporations hoping to harness its power to profit, universally lack the humility to realise they can’t control, coerce or contain a true AI, that could become sentient and decide the fate of humanity in a nanosecond.
@David Van-Standen: agree Dave
“The company and its flagship social network have been central to the building of the modern internet” – You are joking, right? Unless to you modern internet is synonymous with social media.
I haven’t used Facebook in nearly a decade, and proud of it!
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