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How the information age has revolutionised history
How the information age has revolutionised history
We live today in an age of unprecedented information. It’s easy to get – disposable, even. And an absolute boon to people like me. One of the huge benefits of the information revolution for historians has been the way that information, suddenly, is not just available online – it’s searchable. This is particularly true here in New Zealand where various government agencies have embarked on a…
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Is the Promise of Technology beginning to Backfire
Is the Promise of Technology beginning to Backfire
In the title to this article the suggestion or question is whether technologie’s promise for a better world is beginning to backfire. It might rather be said that it is backfiring to a degree. That is, we are already seeing some of the negative consequences of the tech revolution.
As previously discussed in another article, first we had the industrial revolution followed by what can be referred…
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Who are we? And what is our role in the universe? Information technology is radically changing not only how we deal with the world and make sense of it, or i...
If we understand the lesson from the #Information #Revolution, and the change from us as #Mechanisms to us as #Inforgs, then we can develop the right #ICT. Luciano Floridi talks about the #Fourth #Technological #Revolution, and how #Technology changes our #Health, and #SelfUnderstanding. #TEDx #TEDxMaastricht
The tools that dominate our lives these days: "Anti-Computer." (Plus- the mighty Maxwell) “The information revolution came without an instruction manual”*…
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The information revolution now gives us access to too much information. Our problems are that we’re just overwhelmed, so in some sense we just basically don’t even know where to turn.
Jonathan Taplin
Orwellian dystopia
What are the Orwellian dystopias of the 21st century? Willmetts, S. (February 3, 2017) Article from https://theconversation.com/what-are-the-orwellian-dystopias-of-the-21st-century-72135
“Fictional metaphors matter, and in the battle to safeguard our civil liberties few metaphors matter more than George Orwell’s 1984. Although first published almost 70 years ago, the lasting salience of this most archetypal dystopia is undeniable.”
“In the week after Edward Snowden’s revelations of US government mass surveillance were first revealed, sales of the novel rocketed by 6,000%. A year later, in Thailand, 1984 became a symbol of resistance to government repression, and was promptly banned. And following Trump’s inauguration and the conspicuously Orwellian admission by one of his chief strategists, Kellyanne Conway, that his administration trades in “alternative facts”, 1984 once again leapt to the top of the bestseller list.”
“Orwell is ingrained in the West’s political lexicon. “Big Brother”, “Newspeak” and “DoubleThink” are now bywords for totalitarianism and political mendacity. But doesn’t every crystal ball have a shelf life, even the most prescient?”
“Orwell conceived his imaginary surveillance state of Oceania before personal computing, before the information revolution, before CCTV, before 24-hour news cycles, before reality television. As pointed out by John Broich, surveillance and political repression today is far more complex than in Orwell’s time, and far more technologically sophisticated.” …
Key takeaways
Orwellian dystopia
surveillance state
civil liberties
symbolic resistance
“alternative facts”
political repression
political lexicon
information revolution
Eliminating the Human Element
Eliminating the Human Element
We are beset by—and immersed in—apps and devices that are quietly reducing the amount of meaningful interaction we have with each other.
I have a theory that much recent tech development and innovation over the last decade or so has an unspoken overarching agenda. It has been about creating the possibility of a world with less human interaction. This tendency is, I suspect, not a bug—it’s a…
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