A view from Dave Trott: context is all
As a US professor found to his cost, if you're going to call someone Kant, make sure you're doing it in an appropriate setting - a maxim that equally could be applied to our approach to advertising.
A view from Dave Trott: It's artificial but it's not intelligent
When technology fails to show there's something fishy going on, AI leaves us little to worry about.
A view from Dave Trott: The answer asks the question
New questions will bring new answers.
A view from Dave Trott: Fair is foul and foul is fair
Welcome to the new puritanism.
A view from Dave Trott: 'Manners' is the way we should behave
Sting wrote Englishman In New York about Quentin Crisp.
Dave Trott: Thinking like a parrot
As a boy, Richard Feynman and his father used to go for walks in the woods.
Different is worth more
Chris Blackwell was born in Jamaica and went to school in England. When he went home to Jamaica he tried various jobs, but didn't like any of them. The only thing he loved was Jamaican music.
A view from Dave Trott
Mary Miller, a 35-year-old blonde, went up to the eighth floor of the Genesee Hotel, opened a window and climbed on to the ledge.
A view from Dave Trott
On 8 May 1945, Germany surrendered. Japan was still fighting, so World War II wasn't over.
Dave Trott: Students are customers
In 2012, Emma Sulkowicz was raped in New York.
Dave Trott: Give 'Em the old soft soap
In 1957 Dove soap started advertising for the first time. They ran a press ad with a woman luxuriating in a bathful of bubbles. The headline said HEAD OVER HEELS IN DOVE.