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Here is the deck with my presentation from Digital Procurement World in Amsterdam, yesterday
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Sep 2019
At Work, Expertise Is Falling Out of Favour (via The Atlantic)
“The ship’s most futuristic aspect, though, is its crew. The LCS was the first class of Navy ship that, because of technological change and the...
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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
Uber’s Path of Destruction (good read via American Affairs Journal): “Uber’s Investors Always Sought to Exploit Artificial Market Power”
Powerful and deep read by Hubert Horan – really made me think differently about Uber! Some of the best snippets: “Most public criticisms of...
16
Jun 2019
New Podcast: Heaven or Hell – Futurist Gerd Leonhard on chapter 11 of “Technology vs. Humanity”
A new episode of our weekly podcast! In this episode Peter Van and me talk about Chapter 11 in my book Technology vs Humanity, on Heaven...
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May 2019
Is Social Media Ruining Political Discourse (must-read via The Atlantic)
GREAT READ, provocative stuff – thanks Jay-David. “YouTube is designed to catch you and not let go. Sometimes I access the site just to watch...
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May 2019
Alexa, Siri, and Google Assistant are changing how we interact with the world by doing it for us (via TheNextWeb, on VUIs)
“A survey of more than 1,500 online shoppers revealed that up to 43 percent of voice-enabled device users have used VUI (Voice User Interfaces) to...
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Apr 2019
This Is How AI Is Redefining Love: a rather scary read via Medium
This Is How AI Is Redefining Love was a great think piece from Medium this week: “By 2020, DNA dating and VR dating will remove...
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Mar 2019
This is Silicon Valley (must-read by Gloria Liou)
Medium writer Gloria Liou is born-and-bred Silicon Valley. She describes her home as an idyllic location where” …people feast on $15 sushirritos and $6 Blue...
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Mar 2019
Uber and the Ongoing Erasure of Public Life (good read via The New Yorker)
“Cities struggling to keep subways and buses running are being drained of revenue by tech companies and a reserve army of cars. These cars, in...
26
Feb 2019
A call for “Soft Ethics” by Professor Luciano Floridi
In this video, Oxford Digital Ethics Lab Professor Luciano Floridi asks an important question “How should we define new digital ethics which includes the benefits of...
15
Feb 2019
The new elite’s phoney crusade to save the world – without changing anything
“That vast numbers of Americans and others in the west have scarcely benefited from the age is not because of a lack of innovation, but...
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Feb 2019
GSMA sharpens focus on ethical digitalisation with the launch of ‘Digital Declaration’
Hear hear ! Better late than never :)) “Social, technological, political and economic currents are combining to create a perfect storm of disruption across all...
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Jan 2019
The World Is Choking on Digital Pollution
“As always, progress has not been without a price. Like the factories of 200 years ago, digital advances have given rise to a pollution that...
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Jan 2019
Don’t believe the hype: the media are unwittingly selling us an AI fantasy | John Naughton
“The tech giants that own and control the technology have plans to exponentially increase that impact and to that end have crafted a distinctive narrative....
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Jan 2019
Beware corporate ‘machinewashing’ of AI
“To compound the problem, the baleful effects of AI are often rooted in the very algorithms that drive many tech companies’ profit streams. Economists call...
