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The Hidden Reason Everything Looks the Same

· 44 min · Season 3 Episode 1

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Have you noticed it?
Phones look alike. Websites feel familiar. Cafés in Berlin, Seoul and New York somehow share the same aesthetic. Companies use the same management systems, chase the same metrics and increasingly arrive at the same answers.
We were promised infinite choice. So why does everything seem to be converging?
In this episode of Tech Stories, we follow a strange trail from website templates and modular manufacturing to A/B testing, algorithms, outsourcing and corporate optimization.
Because when millions of decisions are continuously tested, measured and optimized, something…

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