Wikileaks has been causing quite a stir in the political world, setting their sights on the art community with 'Haiku Leaks.' Haiku Leaks is a website that uses an algorithm to find and post haikus within the released cables.
While a few of the poems on Haiku Leaks are nonsensical, the majority are insightful and surprisingly (if not accidentally) well written. Check out a few sample haikus in the featured gallery.
Implications - Consumers are looking for products that will enrich their lives in some way. No longer just interested in entertainment, customers are becoming more geared towards filling their lives with more fulfilling activities.
Key Themes Behind This Trend
- Personal Enrichment Products
- Opportunity to create products that can enhance and enrich customers' lives beyond entertainment.
- Artistic Algorithms
- Innovation opportunity to develop algorithms that uncover and showcase artistic expressions in various forms of data.
- Insightful Content Curation
- Opportunity to curate and present insightful content to consumers in unique and engaging ways.
Where This Applies
- Publishing
- Disruptive potential to create a publishing platform that leverages algorithms to uncover and distribute artistic content.
- Data Analysis
- Opportunity for data analysis companies to develop algorithms that can uncover artistic patterns and expressions within data sets.
- Content Platforms
- Innovation potential for content platforms to curate and present insightful and meaningful content to consumers.
