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Shit, this is astonishing. Redrow, a luxury apartment builder, have made this creepy, completely dystopic, half-American Psycho advert for the new London they’re currently metastasizing all over the city. Its protagonist lives in a world of almost continual night, with the hungry eyes and...
'Lagos is home to about 20 million people, many of whom live in unplanned settlements with little formal infrastructure. Water in the city is underutilised and inadequately managed while the transportation system is poorly connected. The proposal from NLÉ and Zoohaus/Inteligencias Colectivas creates a network of large- and small-scale urban interventions and spaces that act as supportive infrastructure for the city. The Lagos Tomorrow design would work with rising sea levels.'
(Illustration by NLÉ and Zoohaus/Inteligencias Colectivas)
When we do think about technology’s moral implications, we tend to think about what we do with a given technology. We might call this the “guns don’t kill people, people kill people” approach to the ethics of technology. What matters most about a technology on this view is the use to which it is put. This is, of course, a valid consideration. A hammer may indeed be used to either build a house or bash someones head in. On this view, technology is morally neutral and the only morally relevant question is this: What will I do with this tool? But is this really the only morally relevant question one could ask? For instance, pursuing the example of the hammer, might I not also ask how having the hammer in hand encourages me to perceive the world around me? Or, what feelings having a hammer in hand arouses?
Do Artifacts Have Ethics? | The Frailest Thing
the choices Facebook makes, in their design and in their policies, are value judgments. These will, unavoidably, favor some users over others. They will privilege the practices of some, and render others more difficult or impossible. It is incumbent upon Facebook to recognize when they’re excluding or marginalizing communities of users, and when they’re having a constraining effect on all of us
One Name to Rule Them All: Facebook’s Identity Problem - The Atlantic (via digitalmillenium)
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@DesConTer
Much more active these days. Lots of RTs of interesting things.
Designed Conflict Territories twitter:
@DesConTer
Much more active these days. Lots of RTs of interesting things.
The idea behind Miranda July's Somebody[1] isn't necessarily a new one, but it's one of those ideas whose time is just about coming. Basically, a sort of real-life implementation of Bruce Sterling's Maneki Neko[2], the realisation that when you have a sufficient density of network connected people, you can treat them like, well, nodes in a connected network. And you can use them to route packets from one to another. It's the kind of thing that people would've had the idea for years ago - the writing's been on the wall for ages for this kind of thing - but that tech people get a bit too excited about, or only really works as an art project (which, to be fair, is what July's project is) because you need that Sufficient Density. But, we kind of have it now. It's a sort of phase change. You see it in Bluetooth-powered mesh networking chat apps like Firechat[3] - no reliance upon existing network infrastructure, just on the individual nodes having sufficient density to throw up a network. Again, mesh networks have been on the weak-signal radar for years, but they've always relied upon having some sort of extant infrastructure that can be repurposed. In Cory Doctorow's Little Brother, the in-universe equivalent of the Xbox 360 is repurposed through live boot CDs that bring up a custom, unauthorised operating system that creates an ad-hoc mesh network using the built-in wireless adapters in consumer gaming hardware. But now - what's the density of smartphones that can run a Bluetooth stack in the background, act as a little anonymous identifier and pass off packets to each other in the wild? Or, think about it this way: given what state actors did with Stuxnet, and how it got to where it needed to go, and how many zero-day vulnerabilities went into it, what could you do with a massive network of rootable phones? This is partly what's meant by software as a material - there's a computing substrate that's been deployed in our cities, and whether you're Team Android or Team iOS, there are enough of them out there for you to think of this as a computing substrate, a nascent infrastructure that's just lying in wait. Until recently, we haven't had the battery life, hardware and OS maturity to have persistent, low-power connections on devices, but now we do thanks to protocols like Bluetooth LE. And that's just the malware - what could Transport for London do with a smartphone based mesh network?
Dan Hon Newsletter 154
TANMEN China (Reuters) - On China's southern Hainan island, a fishing boat captain shows a Reuters reporter around his aging vessel. He has one high-tech piece of kit, however: a satellite navigation system
Speaking earlier this year, Jim Farley, a senior Ford executive, acknowledged that "we know everyone who breaks the law, we know when you're doing it. We have GPS in your car, so we know what you're doing. By the way, we don't supply that data to anyone." That last bit didn't sound very reassuring and Farley retracted his remarks.
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jul/20/rise-of-data-death-of-politics-evgeny-morozov-algorithmic-regulation
Absolutely the stupidest salvo in the war on terror to date, Tesco’s, Islington, London, UK on Flickr.
How Solar-Paneled “Plug-And-Play Donkeys” Bring The Internet To Turkish Sheepherders
“My first reaction was that at least in some respects the ‘digital divide’ idea was collapsing,” says Erkan Saka, an assistant professor of communications at Bilgi University in Istanbul. “At least in terms of connecting the web, all citizens in Turkey are finding ways to connect.”
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If the big-data fundamentalists argue that more data is inherently better, closer to the truth, then there is no point in their theology at which enough is enough. This is the radical project of big data. It is epistemology taken to its limit. The affective residue from this experiment is the Janus-faced anxiety that is heavy in the air, and it leaves us with an open question: How might we find a radical potential in the surveillant anxieties of the big-data era?
The Anxieties of Big Data | The New Inquiry
But let’s speak frankly to each other. I’m not the smartest guy you’ve ever met, or the hardest-working. I was a mediocre student. I’m not technical at all—I can’t write a word of code. What sets me apart, I think, is a tolerance for risk and an intuition about what will happen in the future. Seeing where things are headed is the essence of entrepreneurship. And what do I see in our future now? I see pitchforks.
The Pitchforks are Coming for Us Plutocrats | Politico
When we argue about the costs and benefits of immigration, the fact that immigration might be of some benefit to the person migrating is rarely discussed.
What our descendants will deplore about us (via iamdanw)
"In my view, there is absolutely no doubt that the increase of inequality in the United States contributed to the nation's financial instability. The reason is simple: one consequence of increasing inequality was virtual stagnation of the purchasing power of the lower and middle classes in the United States, which inevitably made it more likely that modest households would take on debt, especially since unscrupulous banks and financial intermediaries, freed from regulation and eager to earn good yields on the enormous savings injected into the system by the well-to-do, offered credit on increasingly generous terms." This is a crisis. The reason for capitalism is that it is supposed to allocate reward based on "merit" -- it is supposed to move capital into the hands of the people who can do the most with it -- and if all our policy decisions are made in service to a class of supermanagers whose wealth comes from squatting on a fortune managed by some green-eyeshade quants who grow it without its owner ever doing a notable thing apart from being born to dynasty, there is no more reason for capitalism. Piketty darkly hints that the last time this happened, the world tore itself to pieces, twice, in an orgy of destruction that left millions dead and whole nations in ruin.
Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century | BoingBoing
*Okay, it’s yet another tech-heavy consortium, only this one is a mere “foundation,” and created back in 2010… But what have we here? Gigantic Arab sovereign wealth funding. Uh-oh.
