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 …
Digital prisons
The (digital) file of everything, through a “digital health-identity”, is not just a dream of mr. Bill – the Lord of the Gates and Windows – and of all those …
Ιm-mobilize it – better off!
If they can find out, through the mobile location signal, who’s inside a shop to shop, then they can tell who’s came in to loot it! Right? Right – but …
The orchestra of “truth”
The control of the media and, consequently, the manipulation by the media is not a new trick. If we still need to prove that “the news” are used as reality shapers, then we are many steps behind anything competitive. However, during the “pandemic crisis” it seemed that this was not a given.
cashless: money as a cloud
A society (a world) without money would be, perhaps, healthier? The question does not imply harsh anticapitalism, nor nostalgia for a return to nature and to a “barter economy.” For …
Plague’s political dream
Behold, according to a regulation from the end of the 17th century, the measures that should be taken in case plague breaks out in a city. At first, a strict …
biometrics, digital identities and vaccines
Since 2016, ID2020 has been promoting an ethical, privacy-protecting approach to digital identity.For the one in seven people globally who lack the means to prove their identity, digital identity offers …