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Highlighting the consequences of an automatic society running amok, the late philosopher of technology Bernard Stiegler suggested that successive ages of technological proletarianization since the 19th century have resulted in human losses first in the knowledge of how to make and do (savoir-faire), followed by the knowledge of how to live (savoir-... See more

Ziyaad Bhorat • The Right To Be Free From Automation | NOEMA

The seals around corporate research are never airtight: team members leave to found their own AI startups, and some groups like Microsoft Research, Facebook AI Research, and DeepMind still publish articles on their most meaningful contributions. But broadly speaking, if one of these companies makes a unique breakthrough—a trade secret that could ge

Kai-Fu Lee • AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order

The Duopoly is over (because Everything is an Ad Network) | Mobile Dev Memo by Eric Seufert

Eric Benjamin Seufert mobiledevmemo.com

Corporations and governments, empowered by increasingly sophisticated algorithms, know us better than we know ourselves—leaving us vulnerable to control and manipulation.

Ozan Varol • Awaken Your Genius: Escape Conformity, Ignite Creativity and Become Extraordinary

In our post-privacy world of pervasive social-media sharing, GPS tracking, cellphone-tower triangulation, wireless sensor monitoring, browser-cookie targeting, face-recognition detecting, consumer-intention profiling, and endless other means by which our

David Brooks • This Will Make You Smarter

“inside of Facebook’s servers, inside of Google’s servers, there is a little voodoo doll, [and it is] a model of you.

Johann Hari • Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention--and How to Think Deeply Again

Surveillance Capitalism

Andreas Vlach • 1 card

One such protection would be a Social Accountability Act stipulating that every corporation be graded according to an index of social worthiness, to be compiled by panels of randomly selected citizens, the equivalent of juries, chosen from a diverse pool of stakeholders: the company’s customers, members of the communities it affects, and so on. If ... See more

“We could just ban surveillance capitalism.”