‘Everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance’
“Another flaw in human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance,” said Kurt Vonnegut. Everybody’s wants to start something,...
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Slow appeal 🐢
Conventional wisdom says that we should emphasize speed over power. After all, he who runs the fastest wins the race. But life is a marathon,...
ORCAA, a logo to certify organic algorithms
“The internet is a propaganda machine,” writes author Cathy O’Neil in her book Weapons of Math Destruction where she criticizes the algorithms which have come to...
One giant leak
We are lemmings with big network effects. As products, we exchange our data for lost attention, down into a rabbit hole of distraction. Are we...
Zeynep Tufekci: We’re building a dystopia just to make people click on ads
Are we selling our souls for ads? Technosociologist Zeynep Tufecki seems to think so. The Cambridge Analytica-Facebook debacle demonstrates the Wild West of data exploitation....
The Wild West of data manipulation
Tech entrepreneurs are coming to realize their moral responsibility. Outside parties were abusing stolen Facebook data to develop psychological profiles of voters. The data-mining company...
Losing control of our attention
Screens are contagious. If we see one person look at their phone, we emulate them like we do catching someone yawn. But the addiction is...
Make it new
“Reality is an activity of the most august imagination,” wrote poet Wallace Stevens. What we call reality emerged from human ingenuity. So if we can...