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Dawn of the New Everything with Jaron Lanier – Virtual Futures Salon
Virtual Futures presents Jaron Lanier in conversation on futures, the broken promises of cyberspace, artificial intelligence and virtual reality. Jaron Lanier is…
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Watching Me Watching You – October 11th, 2017
New workplace surveillance technology tracking literally our blood, sweat and tears is upon us. Should your boss track your tone of voice,…
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Facebook ‘misled’ EU on how creepy buying WhatsApp would be
Originally by Oliver Smith for The Memo In 2014 Facebook spent a whopping $19bn buying everyone’s favourite chat app, WhatsApp. The deal…
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The Wikipedia Gender Gap
“The average Wikipedia editor is a well-educated white male. Well-educated white males have been writing history and the story of the world…
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The Risk of Disconnect: raising kids in the digital realm
As screens come to capture our every waking moment, Morgan Reede assesses the impact of technology on the relationship between parent and…
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Ours to Manage and to Own: Beyond the Sharing Economy
Looking Beyond Platform Capitalism to a Shared Economy, Ours to Manage and to Own Location: Westminster Forum. 5th floor, Wells Street, University…
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Digital Citizenship: from liberal privilege to democratic emancipation
On the anniversary of the Magna Carta, Richard Barbrook calls for a new debate on the conception of citizenship. ‘Government founded… on…
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Digital Citizenship – Give us the tools and we’ll finish the job
Digital Britain: a passive theatre or wired carnival? By Eva Pascoe, Chair and Co-Founder of Cybersalon Digital Futures Think-tank A recent…
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