hm. Graham is talking about smart people without knowing how "smart" works. In my view, the most important ingredient for resourcefull brains is a stable childhood far away from arm races at stock markets (or games of rich people in general). Money, nice environments, cafes, etc. are all second order effects, what you need in the first place is time and encouragement to explore new paths to bear frustrations and disbeliefs of people with influence.
Well, design of computers and algorithms is a fairly recent development in our evolution, but I would say that algorithmic clothes is nothing fundamentally new. We were doing it all the time already: adapting our clothes to our environment (winter/summer, inside/outside, formal/informal). So, what would be the added value of changing patterns in clothes ? Hm... I only can imagine to answer this question in maybe 100 or 200 years, when we know what our brains do with patterns. Maybe algorithmic clothes can help us with this already today, but instead of some marketing fuzz, some numbers and statistics would be more helpfull then.
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hm. Graham is talking about smart people without knowing how "smart" works. In my view, the most important ingredient for resourcefull brains is a stable childhood far away from arm races at stock markets (or games of rich people in general). Money, nice environments, cafes, etc. are all second order effects, what you need in the first place is time and encouragement to explore new paths to bear frustrations and disbeliefs of people with influence.
Well, design of computers and algorithms is a fairly recent development in our evolution, but I would say that algorithmic clothes is nothing fundamentally new. We were doing it all the time already: adapting our clothes to our environment (winter/summer, inside/outside, formal/informal). So, what would be the added value of changing patterns in clothes ? Hm... I only can imagine to answer this question in maybe 100 or 200 years, when we know what our brains do with patterns. Maybe algorithmic clothes can help us with this already today, but instead of some marketing fuzz, some numbers and statistics would be more helpfull then.