"We face a future in which active surveillance is such a routine part of business that for most people it is nearly inescapable. In this respect, we are on the road back to serfdom" @superwuster
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The role of disembodied hands on the internet as creating a sense of agency through their anonymity. A reminder of the power of internet still has democratize knowledge @amandahess
Are you ever creeped out by an ad that seems to know you? Did you know that surveillance camera can actually recognize you? Are you tempted to take one of those DNA tests? This year, @nytopinion is looking at tech's impact on privacy — and what to do about it.
This could equally be applied to the US and many other nation states struggling to imagine the consequences of decades of half baked social policies and neoliberalism. #Brexit
Today’s tech companies enter the public markets at a moment of reckoning, as Silicon Valley faces a backlash from regulators and consumers. The tightly knit nature of tech investment has not prepared its leaders well to meet this challenge. https://t.co/HPLx3gdQCy
@Remender You ever read TekkonKinkreet? Loving it and it reminds me of Deadly Class. The description seems right up your alley: “Punk rock meets fine art on the mean streets of Treasure Town.”
@RaminDjawadii Brahm’s Concerto for Piano and Orchestra no. 2 and your Westworld theme share a lot in common! I guess great minds do think alike 🙂 https://t.co/6gooatV5DW
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Props to the Wulverblade developers who, when asked why their Roman-era Britain beat-em-up has black people in it, gives a thorough, historically accurate explanation
"The chronoscopic time of the ICT revolution - a temporality of instantaneous and continuous connectivity - is, paradoxically, accompanied by new forms of inertia"-Judy Wajcman reflecting on how new tech both speeds up life and simultaneously traps us at our desks / on our phones