When Lauren Antonoff, the newly appointed CEO of the Life360 tracking app, recently described the company as part of the “anxiety economy,” it sounded like a phrase that didn’t make …
Predictive surveillance: prevention is the best treatment (for suppression)
It is not something new that surveillance always has predictive / preventive characteristics – and disciplinary characteristics. The state must supervise and know as much as possible about the individuals …
Kronos does not eat his children. He eats space and time.
Today everyone is talking about artificial intelligence. They say it shows us the future. But can it take us on a journey to the past? – Of course it can. …
Sell yourself (by the kilo)
It’s not enough to be a recognized “persona” in the vast cyberspace… It’s not enough to be an influencer, youtuber, tiktoker or anything similar… It’s not enough to be paid …
data, more data: surveillance and punishment in everyday life
Surveillance has been transformed from an element of governance into governance itself. It is simultaneously government (system) and governability (self-awareness and cooperation, where the imprisoned becomes the guardian of himself). …
The Internet of Bodies: the body as a technological platform
Less than ten years have passed since the Internet of Things was making headlines and fueling the dreams of tech enthusiasts everywhere. Smart clothes that can gauge your mood and …
the machines of “mental health”
One cannot say that we remained idle, that we were indifferent, that we looked at our navels (as is fashionable). In 2019, marginalized groups could read among other things: …One …
Inadvertently (totally…)
The australian government, wanting to protect the health of its citizens (what else would a government want today?), last April, suggested that they download a contact-tracing application on their mobile …
Telecommuting: the metadata in the service for measuring work productivity
The measurement of productivity has taken various forms over time. The quantity of the produced product/service is the basic criterion. Initially, with overall characteristics – how much the factory produces. …
Technologies that make us sick
In just six months, fever cameras have become a hyper-developed industry In October 2016, a company named Sunell, based in Shenzhen, conducted an experiment: it installed thermal cameras and facial …
what a world!
Under no circumstances would we recommend… netflix to anyone! Or anything like that. (Some book yes…) But on the occasion of the documentary “the social dilemma”, where various “repentant” executives / inventors of applications and technologies that have proven to be huge commercial successes and cultural / intellectual / moral hurricanes (related to antisocial media) become accusers of their own works, consider this: Would you ever trust a fetishist (of technology, religion, commodity) even if he or she sincerely wanted to set you free from a fetishism?
constructions of realities.
How easy is it for everyone to create their own reality? However easy it used to be in the past, the possibilities offered by the new technologies of the 4th industrial revolution make it even easier – and more “fun”. As the means change and evolve, the end remains the same; to create and maintain ideologies. Here are two of the many tools that can be used by anyone to create “fake news” and / or “fake faces”.