Remember the “debate” last spring / summer about digital tracking techniques? When mobile phones would (supposedly) communicate with each other “informing” their users that they were “at a distance of …
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 …
predictive algorithms
The canadian company bluedot, founded in 2013, offers communicable disease mapping services. According to founder Kamran Khan, the sars pandemic in 2002-04 was the reason for starting this business. This …
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?
Labor is the target.
The measures taken (and will be taken) on the occasion of the pandemic have a huge impact on the economy in general and the labor market in particular. Rhetoric has it that in order lives to be saved, the economy must be sacrificed. “Human life above profits!” is the slogan; and concerns about whether states have anti-capitalist tendencies to protect us are manifested in the cafes of the friends of the working class. Unable to find an explanation for the “turn of states against their interests and profits”, they accept this turn as a contradiction and get rid of it; to get confused again afterwards, trying to criticize its management, asking for more protection measures and bonuses.
The human face-lessness of big data
Do the data have a human face? Only in the minds of their creators. Maybe the expression just wants to highlight the positives discovery and exploitation of this new raw material, of information, have for us humans. Or not; perhaps it’s the crude interpretation that derives from the digitization process itself: that the body is just a volume of information. That relations are a complex of networks and flows; that thoughts are electrical signals. Can anyone disagree with the experts? “Why, all this is scientifically proven!”
Body-as-implement
Quantum dots (QDs) are achievements of nanotechnologies; techniques that manage materials at the scale of atoms and / or molecules. QDs are semiconductor circuits, ie “chips”, in the size of …
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 …
Person-Generated Health Data
We know that there are many, too many, those who find it difficult (? – refuse? – are unable?) to connect the 4th industrial revolution with the mega-management not of …
Forty years ago.
Wall Street, 1979. A documentary filmmaker, David Hoffman, roams the streets of New York collecting opinions, impressions, and associations about the new normality that was then underway. About the “information …
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 …