No Thanks
Last week, Apple got into trouble because of an ad. It taught us a lesson beyond the good and evil of advertising and public relations.
Tech Elite's AI Ideologies Have Racist Foundations, Say AI Ethicists
More and more prominent tech figures are voicing concerns about superintelligent AI and risks to the future of humanity. But as leading AI ethicist Timnit Gebru and researcher Émile P Torres point out, these ideologies have deeply racist foundations. TESCREAL “So another “godfather” of AI, Turing Award Winner Yoshua Bengio has decided to FULLY align […]
What is the Small Web?
Today, I want to introduce you to a concept – and a vision for the future of our species in the digital and networked age – that I’ve spoken about for a while but never specifically written about: The Small Web. To understand what the Small Web is, let’s compare it to the Big Web. In other words, to the centralised Web we have today. The Big Web You are allowed to rent space on Megacorp’s servers in exchange for giving up your privacy, freedom of speech, and other human rights.
Ăśberwachung: Wir sind alle Cyborgs
»Unsere vernetzten Alltagsgegenstände sind die Erweiterung unserer Persönlichkeit. Deshalb dürfen wir nicht zulassen, dass unsere persönlichen Daten abgegriffen werden.« –Aral Balkan (original english version → https://ar.al/notes/the-nature-of-the-self-in-the-digital-age/)
This is all there is
as the people who make objects, we have a profound responsibility. A responsibility to not take for granted the limited time that each of us has in this world. A responsibility to make that time as beautiful, as comfortable, as painless, as empowering, and as delightful as possible though the experiences that we craft.
Because this is all there is.
And it’s up to us to make it better.
The town square doesn’t belong in private hands
Katta Spiel: "Es braucht Sichtbarkeit fĂĽr mehr als zwei Geschlechter"
Katta Spiel, Wissenschafter:in an der TU Wien, über Reaktionen auf den Hinweis, dass weder "Frau" noch "Mann" als Ansprache richtig sind – und warum genderfaire Sprache so aufregt