More than half the workers of the world do business in the informal, or shadow, economy—selling legal products in a quasilegal way, or, like the owner of that New York liquor store, selling quasi-legal products in a legal way—and their work is worth more than USD 10 trillion each year. For much of the planet, the global informal economy has become a dynamic and mobile network of ingenuity involving every type of business, from street merchants to mega-corporations.
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This chain also includes a technological feedback loop. For instance, Chinese firms have started producing phones that fit two SIM cards simultaneously because African customers ask for them.
— Robert Neuwirth (PopTech 2011, 2005) Shadow Goods, Makeshift: The Mobility Issue (via poptech)(via poptech)
Me: Here are the photographs from the shoot yesterday
Client: Nice shots - I like this one from behind the man. Can you just flip the image so we can see his face and not the back of his head?
Me: You want me to turn him around in the photograph so you can see his face?
Client: Yes - and maybe we can make him black. Do you have Photoshop?
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Don’t trust your sight; or, why visual evidence is a weak form of scientific observation
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