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Is this all about freedom versus security? Apple vs the FBI
Read Vivek Wadwha's take on Apple vs FBIRead NYT's opinion piece
When is great technology enough…?
Read more on TechCrunch Point is, a little technology is amazing. But all technology, all the time is dystopia. And strutting and fretting our entire lives digitally...
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Feb 2016
Our evolving relationship with technology
“Right now, at the frontier of technology, people are deciding the future of human-computer interaction. The Myo armband is one futuristic input among many. The...
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Feb 2016
Computers, the Internet, and the Abdication of Consciousness – made me think
“Only if we counter these technologies with a greater power of attention to the specific, the qualitative, the local, the here and now, can we...
14
Feb 2016
Internet of Things could be used as spy tool by governments says US intel chief (Arstechnica), and Bruce Schneier on the IoT
“In the future, intelligence services might use the loT for identification, surveillance, monitoring, location tracking, and targeting for recruitment, or to gain access to networks...
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Feb 2016
TED isn’t a cult. Here’s what attendees actually believe
“Science, philosophy and technology run on the model of American Idol - as embodied by TED talks - is a recipe for civilisational disaster" wrote...
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Feb 2016
Internet (of Things) ethics
“The ‘Internet of Things’ needs to be better managed from an ethical standpoint, says an article in European Business Review co-authored by Professor David De...
10
Feb 2016
About Facebook anxiety
“there remain plenty of Facebook detractors. The Kernel shone a baleful light on “Facebook anxiety” comparing the experience of flicking through the curated feeds of...
02
Feb 2016
Some Buckminster Fuller Bottom Lines (via BrainPickings)
“Fuller then moves on to the vital distinction between money-work and purpose, debunking the myth of the zero-sum game of prosperity:It is also mistakenly assumed...
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Jan 2016
The evilfication of Facebook: boiling frogs, faustian bargains, and the pleasure trap: 10 arguments for quitting Facebook (UPDATED)
This post will be updated regularly as I'm deciding on what to do about my Facebook presence. Thanks for all your votes btw – you...
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Jan 2016
What does it mean to be human in the age of technology? (Tom Chatfield – The Guardian)
“This is an astonishing, disconcerting, delightful thing: the crowd in the cloud becoming a stream of shared consciousness.We think of ourselves as individual, rational minds,...
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Jan 2016
Digital Ethics: The role of the CIO in balancing the risks and rewards of digital innovation
“What is digital ethics?In our hyper-connected world, an explosion of data is combining with pattern recognition, machine learning, smart algorithms, and other intelligent software to...
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Jan 2016
Stop Being A Loner, It’ll Kill You: low social interaction has worse effects than obesity
“This paper mirrors the results of a 2013 study from Brigham Young University, which found that "low social interaction has the equivalent lifespan impact as...
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Jan 2016
Meet the digital dissenters: They’re fighting for a better internet. Made me think
“Where do humans fit into this new economy? Really not as creators of value, but as the content. We are the content. We are the...
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Jan 2016
What if the Internet Really Isn’t Social? What If It’s the Opposite? (asks Jason Gots)
“Marc Potenza, a psychiatrist at Yale who primarily studies alcohol and drug addiction says that “some people have posited that the Internet is a vehicle...
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Jan 2016
A Taste of the Future: good read by Kim Araz (work, automation and IoT)
“The fact is that sooner than we can imagine, there will be masses of educated people suddenly finding themselves out of a job, no longer...
