Blog – Page 121 – Technology vs Humanity: the coming clash of man and machine

Capitalism’s New Clothes

In a series of remarkably prescient articles, the first of which was published in the German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung in the summer of 2013, Shoshana Zuboff pointed to an alarming phenomenon: the digitization of everything was giving technology firms immense social power. Read full Article

Team Human vs. Team AI

People and organizations are navigating a new terrain, characterized by autonomous technologies, runaway markets, and weaponized media. Read full Article

Accentuate the Positive

Is the world getting better or worse? Both, it seems. In January 2018, Time ran a cover story called “The Optimists,” in which the issue’s guest editor, Bill Gates, reported that things are on the whole improving. Read full Article

From greenwashing to “machine-washing” (a good comment on tech companies and AI, via the Boston Globe)

Guest post by TFA Curator Petervan Some technology companies are starting to go the extra mile in their corporate communication strategies in order to manage the perception that they focus on being sustainable, caring for the planet and society in general. On the other hand, some of them have also become very good at “greenwashing” … Continue reading "From greenwashing to “machine-washing” (a good comment on tech companies and AI, via the Boston Globe)"

About Digital Pollution (Washington Monthly #mustread)

In the slipstream of exponential change… read this great posts on why the world is now choking on digital pollution (Washington Monthly). Now that “data is the new oil” (one of Gerd’s favourite memes – watch this video from 2012 😄), we also have “spillage” in the form of data pollution. The first time I heard about … Continue reading "About Digital Pollution (Washington Monthly #mustread)"