Blog – Page 92 – Technology vs Humanity: the coming clash of man and machine

Police Are Feeding Celebrity Photos into Facial Recognition Software to Solve Crimes

Police departments across the nation are generating leads and making arrests by feeding celebrity photos, CGI renderings, and manipulated images into facial recognition software. Read full Article

My book Technology vs Humanity is now available in Chinese!

Really excited about that – purchase links to follow!

What does it mean to be human in the age of technology?

Meaningful collaboration between people and machines must not subvert human creativity, feeling and questioning over speed, profit and efficiency When I think about the future of human-machine interactions, two entwined anxieties come to mind. Read full Article

3 short excerpts from my keynote at Xerocon 2018: Technology and Humanity – the next 10 years

The Megashifts Reinventing ourselves The Future is better than we think

Surveillance Capitalism and the Platform Economy is humanly and societally unsustainable, and Facebook will go down with it

Read this for context: The brilliant book by Shoshana Zuboff The Age of Surveillance Capitalism Time to break up Facebook (Chris Hughes NYT) Chris Hughes is right (WIRED) Here is what I said about Facebook in 2018, and why I quit last year Download MP4: Surveillance Capitalism unsustainsble gerd leonhard