Johnnie Moore

The activist in me

Johnnie Moore

Johnnie Moore

I’m Johnnie Moore, and I help people work better together

Call me subversive but I like seeing brands challenged, to have the advertising imagery questioned and supplanted. I don’t know the facts behind the email Neil Turner received from his mum, but I like that people are taking on brand imagery in this way.

Dear Friend,

Please join me in sending an UnValentine

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links for 2010-08-20

Ray Kurzweil Responds to “Ray Kurzweil does not understand the brain” | KurzweilAI Linear thinking about the future is hardwired into our brains. Linear predictions of the future were quite