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Social media crack, the sofalarity and FOMO babies: my 3 most popular graphics
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‘Black Mirror’ Isn’t Surprising Anymore. We’re Screwed (says Wired)
“In other words, show creator Charlie Brooker and executive producer Annabel Jones in all likelihood plucked Bauer's vision quest not from the headlines but from...
07
Jun 2019
Sidewalk Labs free app for watching every move you make… ‘only for research purposes’
Sidewalk Labs, the urban design subsidiary of Google parent company Alphabet built an app to automate the “tedious” data collection involved in public life studies–while...
27
Apr 2019
When employees are tracked by their employers, science fiction may actually become science fact (screening surveillance project)
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada funded the Screening Surveillance project: a trio of Creative Commons licensed short science fiction films about “everyday issues...
20
Apr 2019
4500+ Researchers Call for an Immediate Ban on Lethal Autonomous Weapons
Although AI plays an integral role in our everyday lives, AI can also be used to create weapons of mass destruction, unlike anything the world...
10
Apr 2019
When Artificial Intelligence Is Everywhere: A dystopian view for 2060 (via The Smithsonian)
As part of the April 2019 preview, The Smithsonian Magazine has an interesting series of future AI scenarios – albeit quite dystopian. The story projects us forward...
02
Apr 2019
Are robots the new class of social actors?
The Atlantic published an excellent article last week titled “How AI will Rewire Us”. The author comments on a number of lab experiments where people...
20
Mar 2019
Humanity is on ‘the highway to digital dictatorship’, says Yuval Noah Harari (but it’s not inevitable)
“Well, none of this is inevitable,” he says, suddenly eager to sound a note of optimism. “We can do things on the level of global...
19
Mar 2019
New podcast! Comments on Chapter 4 of FuturistGerd’s book “Technology vs. Humanity”: The automation of society.
In this week's podcast, we talk through Chapter 4 of my book Technology vs Humanity, entitled “Automating Society”. This chapter includes questions such as, ‘what is...
20
Feb 2019
BBC-Click interview with me, on cyborgs and ‘Terminator Genisys’ (short video)
Note: I actually don't feel that negative about our future – this is a danger but it's still early enough to make the right decisions, today....
09
Nov 2015
Watch the Pepper digital assistant video from Japan: the ‘synths’ in the new AMC TV show ‘Humans’ are not far away?
Thanks to the Japanese companies Softbank and Aldebaran (and dozens of other enterprising ‘make the world a better place' tech companies all over the world) we won't have...
08
Jul 2015
Digital obesity and the obsession with MORE: watch this ‘Black Mirror’ teaser to visualize where we might be headed (dystopia alert!)
… and watch the Black Mirror episodes after that (now available on Netflix). A future without what I call ‘digital ethics' will very likely look...
