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Must-watch summary of US congress hearing on tech regulation #digitalethics (via TheVerge)
technology regulation: too much of a good thing can be a very bad thing
Facebook, Libra, and the Long Game (must read via Stretchery) – is this the end of credit cards?
“Thus the federation of trust inherent in Libra, despite the loss of efficiency that entails: by not being in control, and by actively including corporations...
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Jun 2019
The Real Reason for Facebook’s New Cryptocurrency (must-read by Kevin Werbach, in the NYT)
“For all the controversies, Facebook’s profits remain strong and its user numbers remain steady. Yet it has lost something that in the long run is...
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Jun 2019
Surveillance Capitalism and the Platform Economy is humanly and societally unsustainable, and Facebook will go down with it
Read this for context: The brilliant book by Shoshana Zuboff The Age of Surveillance Capitalism Time to break up Facebook (Chris Hughes NYT) Chris...
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May 2019
The best excerpts from Futurist Gerd Leonhard’s recent keynotes and interviews, on topics such as Technology and Humanity, the Megashifts and Digital Ethics
Please visit my Youtube channel for 1500+ hours of films and keynote videos ... Read more
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Apr 2019
Zuckerberg Wants Facebook to Build a Mind-Reading Machine
“The idea is to allow people to use their thoughts to navigate intuitively through augmented reality—the neuro-driven version of the world recently described by Kevin...
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Mar 2019
Yes I did #DeleteFacebook: Futurist Gerd Leonhard’s take. So would a paid-for, non-commercial platform be a better solution?
As of march 23, 2018, I am no longer active on Facebook and will be deleting my profile and all related pages in the next...
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Mar 2018
Why Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google Need to Be Disrupted (good read via Esquire)
“Meanwhile, Facebook and Google (now known as Alphabet) are together worth $1.3 trillion. You could merge the world’s top five advertising agencies (WPP, Omnicom, Publicis,...
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Feb 2018
Gerd Leonhard’s presentation at LaFutura in Dubai: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Humanity
Here is my deck from LaFutura 2017 in Dubai, on Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Humanity La Futura AI and the future of humanity...
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Nov 2017
Tech Giants, Once Seen as Saviors, Are Now Viewed as Threats (via NYT)
In Europe, however, the ground is already shifting. Google’s share of the search engine market there is 92 percent, according to StatCounter. But that did...
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Oct 2017
Facebook’s war on free will – powerful Franklin Foer / TheGuardian story (made me think – a lot)
“But we shouldn’t accept Facebook’s self-conception as sincere, either. Facebook is a carefully managed top-down system, not a robust public square. It mimics some of...
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Sep 2017
Algorithms are failing Facebook. Can humanity save it? Made me think …via Quartz
“Facebook wanted to be pipes, but it’s also peopleEarly in the company’s history, Zuckerberg referred to Facebook as a “utility,” a piece of “information infrastructure.”...
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May 2017
Facebook’s plans to augment reality are as dystopian as they are smart (via TheVerge)
“Facebook didn’t shy away from the marketing opportunities AR provides. In fact, it embraced the idea that you could hover your viewfinder over a restaurant...
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Apr 2017
What Google and Facebook must do about one of their biggest problems – Vivek Wadhwa
“It wasn’t supposed to be this way. Social media was developed with the promise of spreading democracy, community and freedom, not ignorance, bigotry and hatred....
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Apr 2017
Forget AT&T: What about Google and Facebook…? good read via the NYT
“Look at the numbers. Alphabet (the parent company of Google) and Facebook are among the 10 largest companies in the world. Alphabet alone has a...
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Dec 2016
Our Automated Future – definitive must-read on the future of work (via The New Yorker)
“Google offers a vivid illustration of how new technologies create new opportunities. Two computer-science students at Stanford go looking for a research project, and the...
