What’s In This Issue?
This Week’s Main Stories
Story 01Emirates Tells Desperate Travelers to Stop Asking For Upgrades
Story 02How Stock X Is Crushing Ecommerce (And Beating Ebay)
Story 03New Netflix Reality Show Manipulates People To Commit MurderEven More Stories
- Deloitte's Tech Predictions For 2018
- Google Removes View Image Button To Prevent Copyright Infringement
- "Greatest American Hero" Reboot To Feature Indian-American Lead
- Why North Korea Sent Hundreds Of Cheerleaders To The Olympics
- Teen Raises Money To Send 1000 Girls To See "Wrinkle In Time"
- Barnes & Noble Is Killing Itself
- The Surprising Gamble That Might Save Moviepass
- Can "Predictive Banking" Improve Financial Literacy?
Emirates Tells Desperate Travelers to Stop Asking For Upgrades
In a new ad, Emirates pokes fun at the extreme lengths that many people go to in order to try and secure an upgrade. The silliness of the requests and the highly relatable experience of desperately seeking a slightly more comfortable seat works perfectly to underscore the key message of the ad -- that Emirates has the most comfortable economy class in the business. Sadly, that isn't useful unless you happen to be flying somewhere you go via Dubai, but it's a great message and creative delivery anyway.
How Stock X Is Crushing Ecommerce (And Beating Ebay)
StockX has become the go-to place for collectors of high end sneakers to do business with one another, and might be reinventing how online reselling works too. This article notes that "a team of around 15 authenticators unboxes 4,000 to 6,000 pairs of shoes every day" - which means StockX is replacing the necessity for buyer and seller ratings with third party verification of goods. In this sense, they are a sort of anti-Ebay, where anyone can easily get online and sell products without the benefit (or requirement) of a past track record. That's a deceptively big idea.
New Netflix Reality Show Manipulates People To Commit Murder
Can a reality show push the limits of morality and actually convince someone to commit a murder? This is the premise of an actual show coming later this week to Netflix - and this article explores the many ethical issues this show raises very well. Anyone familiar with the Milgram experiments knows that humans can sometimes far too easily be convinced to harm one another and even to kill. So is this show just another over promoted way for us to get desensitized to violence or is the question they are asking really a valid one worthy of exploration? Visit the link to watch the short trailer for the show and you can decide for yourself.
