… the pandemic will accelerate innovation even more, catalysing technological changes already under way (comparable to the exacerbation effect it has had on other underlying global and domestic issues) and …
Latent language…
Eye movement, hand trembling, body posture, contradictions in narratives and much more, are elements of the live communication that can show (or hide) the sincerity. The codification of these elements, …
Introduction to biosecurity
After the attacks on the Twin Towers, on September 11, 2001, the world entered a “new normality”. On the occasion of these attacks, new practices and technologies of surveillance and repression were installed throughout the spectrum of public and private space, which nullified the civil liberties granted until then. The “war on terror” imposed emergency mobilization for the purposes of managing the “Islamic threat”, which (emergency mobilization / urgent need) was then made permanent. Always in the name of “freedom”…
The evolution of the epidemic
Our saviors (and the friends of lockdown) claim that thanks to the measures we avoided the worst. And that now there is a need for new measures and lockdowns. The …
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. …
Metadata: the data in the microscope
The estimated size of the digital universe by the end of 2020, according to the World Economic Forum, will be 44 zettabytes (44 quintillion bytes); 40 times more bytes than …
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”.
The monopoly of truth
It is common in the so-called “scientific circles” that when an opinion has influence over the majority (an influence that is never spontaneous but always constructed within the ‘scientific institutions’) …
At last, mopping!
You dispose of your cyberwaste anywhere, and you don’t care! Of course: cyberspace is “intangible”, so we spit and litter at will! Do you really think that? Nope! Fortunately, a …
Total “health protection”: automated incrimination…
If you were planning to travel outside national borders, even within the “Schengen area”, you certainly have various problems, difficulties, obstacles. Everything may be hastily built, but violently on the …