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Lighthouse of Technologies #5

  • Despite the increasing availability of information, we are faced with an increasing number of problems in processing this information and making associated decisions. The possibilities of generating information are also multiple, with more and more news generated or supported by robots.

03 September 2018 - 14:25

There have also been many ways to visualize information and some of them are really spectacular, but in order to contribute to this organization it is necessary that the flow (or RSS) is again present in all the websites. This open struggle for our attention, there are clear signs of the damage it is causing us, it seems that the time has come to make more serious decisions.

We are also getting more and more information about the strategies for the acquisition of control of our data by giant companies, as well as by states. Facebook has confirmed that it also receives the motions of the xagua. Instead of the latest invention in China, they are bird-shaped drones to control the citizens. Once again, we have also learned that our data is used to influence elections; in a spiral that no longer surprises us.

Not everything will be bad, they have agreed to establish more controls to access the location information that we leave by phone in the United States. Drones, on the other hand, have also begun to be used to do the work that insects did; here are the pollinating drones.

There are more and more differences and of course they are also noticeable in the algorithms. It will become increasingly important to monitor their work, given the growing number of problems that may arise, especially if they are linked to basic needs. Even though the algorithms are programmed by us, it is still vague what we are building around them and it is the art, the first to show that slipperiness or uncertainty.

There are interesting movements in the field of work. Many have to do with collaboration, as it has always been: workers’ business recovery, new islands of cooperativism, measures against the precarization of workers by application... Meanwhile, Tesla, an exemplary technology company in fashion, to continue exploiting its brand, is ready to hide data on accidents caused by its exploitation.

Many new technologies are on the way, even if we are not very clear about what they will bring. In the absence of discourses and practices that seek the benefit of society, as we once set out to look at space, we could do it again; exacerbating the problem further or opening promising paths. In the meantime, with our feet on the ground, we will have to settle for what the daily footprints left us.

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