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Theory: The spreadsheet (Excel etc.) has cause more damage to society than the atomic bomb: It enabled accountants, lawyers, economists & bankers to radically expand their power and scale their cold totalitarian logic to all aspects of human life & ecology.
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While western "users" (replacement for legacy terms such as 'citizen' or 'human') are permanently hypnotised by vain technological conveniences which enable them to suffocate their existence in consumerism - consumerism is suffocating our planets eco-systems.
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"Amazon Is Aggressively Pursuing Big Oil as It Stalls Out on Clean Energy": https://gizmodo.com/amazon-is-aggressively-pursuing-big-oil-as-it-stalls-ou-1833875828
The rise of Amazon (the company) is inextricably linked with the fall of Amazon (the rainforest).
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One must pull the hat for the performance which PR departments of big tech corps play, truly excellent work in this media age: They manage to sell the politics of stagnation & oppression as the politics of dynamism & progress. Respect, very professional! The reality is different.
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“I absolutely detest modern media — Twitter, Facebook, Instagram. It’s a disease. It seems to encourage bad behaviour.” - Linus Torvalds (creator of Linux)
https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/25-years-later-interview-linus-torvalds #Technology
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If we recognise "planned obsolescence" as a factor in the evaluation of how "intelligent" our machines are, the result likely will be stupid.
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"Artificial Intelligence rests on the fallacy that perfection is a legitimate goal of human existence" - Lewis Mumford, remixed
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"Technology alone is not an answer" - Victor Papanek
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"You can’t maintain rigid digital borders and assert cyberpower influence at the same time, so nations have to “cooperate to compete”. The result is a global ecosystem perpetually close to the threshold of war":
http://theconversation.com/the-internet-is-now-an-arena-for-conflict-and-were-all-caught-up-in-it-101736 #Politics #Technology
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"Earth 2.0 - A Sustainable Human-Earth OS" - talk by Tencent CXO @dwallerstein (at 2018 Tencent WE Summit). #Regenerative #OS #ClimateChange #Technology #FFHCI
It is refreshing, timely & sane to see a executive (@dwallerstein) of a tech giant (tencent) give a keynote on climate change & outline a strategic vision for the role of tech (AI, IOT etc) to tackle this challenge (& opportunity). US tech seems deep asleep on this crucial issue.
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Concept of the day: "Data Fracking"
"A widespread business praxis in the early 21st century. The act of forcefully and/or deceptively extracting data from humans, causing great damage to health of communities and nature".
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"China tech worker protest against long working hours goes viral": https://www.ft.com/content/72754638-55d1-11e9-91f9-b6515a54c5b1
Unpaywalled Summary: https://outline.com/mejCjw
The text on the business card reads: "The communist data ecosystem. Data, of the People, by the People, for the People." #Politics #Technology
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"Microsoft has helped build the first device that automatically encodes digital information into DNA and back to bits again": https://www.technologyreview.com/the-download/613158/microsoft-just-booted-up-the-first-dna-drive-for-storing-data/
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Broke: Tech keynotes that focus on Technology.
Woke: Tech keynotes that focus on Humans.
Bespoke: Tech keynotes that focus on Nature. -
"Hedge funds are watching a key lawsuit involving LinkedIn to see if they can spend billions on web-scraped data": https://www.businessinsider.com/hedge-funds-watching-linkedin-lawsuit-on-web-scraped-data-2019-3?IR=T https://outline.com/A3ZXps #Technology
‘We’re experiencing the Industrial Age of Data Aggregation’: MX’s Brandon Dewitt on the future of banking data: https://tearsheet.co/data/were-experiencing-the-industrial-age-of-data-aggregation-mxs-brandon-dewitt-on-the-future-of-banking-data/
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China’s virtual idols meet their fans at the intersection of entertainment and technology:
https://www.scmp.com/tech/article/2188238/chinas-virtual-idols-meet-their-fans-intersection-entertainment-and-technology #Technology #Generative“A team of about 200 people from China and Japan worked for six months to prepare for the two-hour performance. China’s virtual idol industry, valued at less than 100 million yuan last year, is expected to grow to 1.5 billion yuan by 2023"
