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AI & Big Data and the totalitarian dystopias
Two of my readings so far this year have brought to my mind the idea if the combination of AI and Big Data may bring a renewed version of communism. Firstly, the book on platforms and data titled "The Age of Surveillance Capitalism" authored by Shona Zubboff. Afterwards the work on captalism and...
The end of confidence and trust on digitalisation
We take as guaranteed the digital transformation of economy and society. It is almost impossible to imagine a world that will not be fully digitised in few years taking into consideration the pace of adoption of the sucessive wave of innovations, however we should not discard that black swans exist...
New digital intermediaries and the lessons from history
As Shoshana Zuboff details in her book "The Age of Surveillance Capitalism", the raison d'être of digital platforms is the continuous search of new sources of data surplus. First, they started with the explotation of data sources from the virtual world. Once exhausted and taking advantage of...
"Malaherba" - @ManuelJabois
Malaherba by Manuel JaboisMy rating: 5 of 5 starsMe aproxime a la primera novela de Manuel Jabois con expectativas encontradas. De un lado, esperando leer el gran libro propio de quien a mi juicio es hoy día el mejor articulista de la prensa diaria. De otro lado, temiendo la decepción que sintió...
"Amateur" by Thomas Page McBee
Amateur: A True Story About What Makes a Man by Thomas Page McBeeMy rating: 2 of 5 starsSometimes, you read so much about a book that it disappoints to you when you actually read it. This maybe the case of my experience with Thomas Page McBee´s partial autobiography, "Amateur". The central issue of...
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