Jeg overvandt mit koncentrationsbesvær og blev færdig med at læse "Forstyrret - en nekrolog over internettet". Forfatteren beskriver blandt andet sin fornemmelse af at have fået sværere ved at koncentrere sig om fx at læse på grund af alle de forstyrrelser internettet bringer...
Derudover handler den om internettets historie ud fra en personlig beretning om at vokse op sideløbende med internettet. Men mest af alt om tidens tech-udmattelse #techlash og om den #enshittification der driver det.
#techlash
French lawmakers progress tax on American Big Tech amid huge pushback | POLITICO
https://alecmuffett.com/article/119022
#TechLash #france
French lawmakers progress tax ...
French lawmakers progress tax on American Big Tech amid huge pushback | POLITICO
https://alecmuffett.com/article/119022
#TechLash #france
French lawmakers progress tax on American Big Tech amid huge pushback | POLITICO
Basically all European tech regulation is envy & avarice, not user protection:
France’s National Assembly voted Tuesday night in favor of hiking a digital service tax on tech companies including Google, Apple, Meta and Amazon to 6 percent, up from 3 percent … Lawmakers had initially pushed to hike the levy to 15 percent to hit back at U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariff war
Global Leaders, AI Pioneers Demand Superintelligence Ban, Citing Existential Risk
#AI #Superintelligence #AIRegulation #AISafety #Techlash #ExistentialRisk #FutureofLife #AIEthics #TechPolicy #OpenAI #Meta #GeoffreyHinton #SteveWozniak
In these years we're seeing the big tech industry showing its true face: the issues and dangers of mainstream social media are well known by the broader society, "apps" are becoming more broken, bloated and riddled with trackers with every passing day, everything is becoming a subscription service, they're showing down our throats an expensive, polluting and often mediocre technology threatening to take most of our jobs with it... it was inevitable that these conditions spurred a backlash or how media calls it a #techlash.
I belive that's good, it was about time to wipe out most of the naivety many had towards big tech but its saddeing that the pendulum is already swinging in the opposite direction and nowadays many perceives all digital technology as the enemy and calls for getting rid of most of it dreaming of a Butlerian Jihad.
I'm a late 90s kid grew up during the Frutiger Aero era, one of my all time favourite movies is "Tron: Legacy" and I have lots of heartfelt memories of all the experiences and adventures that were possible only because of videogames.
In an era of #techlash and calls to #decomputing I still believe that computing can be a force for good, that the soft glow of an LCD or CRT screen can brighten some of your dull days, that sometimes the friendly words and interactions you need can arrive trough TCP/IP and that the virtual has the potential of significantly enhance (and not replace) the real life.
Like Tron I wanna fight for users.
Red vs. Silicon - Claire Lehman and Balaji
Paul Krugman highlights a troubling trend: under Trump's presidency, America's scientific and educational landscape faces peril as Big Tech shifts allegiances from Democrats. Key issues include slashed science funding and rising intimidation that hinders foreign scholars. Amid a growing public distrust, once-esteemed tech figures now grapple with backlash. This shift prompts questions about the ethics of tech leaders and their alliance with Trump’s administration. Read more here: https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/why-big-tech-turned-against-democrats #PaulKrugman #BigTech #Democrats #Trump #ScienceFunding #Techlash #Regulation #SocialMedia #BidenAdministration
Join us for a conversation about the proliferation of forms of social engineering
in our contemporary digital societies on CDI TV on Thursday, 6 March!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_v7t2T07d78&ab_channel=CentreforDigitalInquiry%2CUniversityofWarwick
#ArtificialSocieties #Symposium #DigitalSociology #Techlash
@uni-of-warwick.bsky.social @noortjem.bsky.social @karengregory.bsky.social @mvaldeb.bsky.social
"She offers a range of solutions, from banning what she sees as clearly antidemocratic technologies (like face-recognition software and other spyware tools) to creating independent teams of expert advisors to members of Congress (who are often clearly out of their depth when attempting to understand technologies and business models). "
The next lecture in our series will be by Emily West: In Digital Platforms We Trust: Data Capture and Pre-Emptive Governance in Tech Companies’ Environmental Policies and initiatives
⏰ November 20, at 2:15 pm
👉 registration: https://u-si.de/kZwhc
#capture, #techlash #mediastudies, #trust #platforms #climate
@sebgiessmann @timmoritz @taz_seitz @Enriya @bumatic @skoopit
With the #tech industry under threat of litigation, Californians have the most to lose financially. #Techlash could potentially cost each of them over $16,000 in retirement savings.
Labour plans to make tech giants liable for reimbursing victims of online fraud, report | …what could possibly go wrong?
https://alecmuffett.com/article/109982
#fraud #regulation #techlash
Labour plans to make tech giants liable for reimbursing victims of online fraud, report | …what could possibly go wrong?
It also proposes expanding the Economic Crime Act to include an offence for tech companies that fail to prevent scams on their platforms.
#Techlash und #Enshittification: Die #Techindustrie hat verlernt, uns zu begeistern
Tim Berners-Lee writes an open letter on the occasion of the World Wide Web's 35th anniversary..:
✍️ https://medium.com/@timberners_lee/marking-the-webs-35th-birthday-an-open-letter-ebb410cc7d42
“Technology Panic Attacks, From Radio to Social Media, With Amy Orben” | from 2020, Dr. Amy Orben, expert in the history of technology panics | this will be weekend listening
This year’s business travel is in the books for me: With my return from Web Summit in Lisbon Friday, the rest of 2023 has no more out-of-town conference badges or hotel keys left. That’s pretty exciting, even if CES looms seven weeks away.
11/13/2023: T-Mobile Within Striking Distance of Becoming Fifth-Largest US ISP, PCMag
The way 5G has brought choice and competition to millions of American homes remains an underappreciated story in telecom.
11/14/2023: Is big tech killing trust?, Web Summit
I interviewed Signal Foundation president Meredith Whittaker and University of California at Irvine professor Veena Dubal about ways that people might reclaim some leverage against tech giants. Our conversation had some hiccups, in the form of acoustics that Whittaker said made it difficult for her to hear me–even while I could hear her mostly fine.
11/14/2023: Strike Up the Bands: White House National Spectrum Strategy Light on Mobile Details, PCMag
I stayed up late Monday to file this post unpacking the long-awaited release of the White House’s spectrum-policy roadmap–and explaining how some of the spectrum bands covered in the document seem unlikely to boost bandwidth to any phones or homes.
11/15/2023: Mozilla: Friends Don’t Get Friends These Tech Gifts, PCMag
I was going to write up the release of the 2023 edition of Mozilla’s “Privacy Not Included” anti-gift guide based on an advance look at the press release about it, then saw enough questions unanswered by that embargoed release that I decided to wait until the next morning to file. And then this nonprofit’s post announcing the guide had very little in common with the copy I’d seen before.
11/16/2023: Audience with a robot: AGI and a decentralised beneficial Singularity, Web Summit
My first panel Thursday had me interviewing one human, SingularityNet COO Janet Adams, and one non-human, that company’s talking, AI-powered robot Desdemona. I decided to test the robot’s conversational skills by asking her questions based on the Three Laws of Robotics and the Voight-Kampff Test, and she fielded them reasonably well.
11/16/2023: Raising money for robots, Web Summit
In my second panel Thursday, I interviewed Energy Robotics CEO Marc Dassler about the investment climate for robotics startups. We had fewer people show up to watch this, which I think has a great deal to do with this panel being scheduled right before a lunch break.
11/17/2023: Why Qualcomm Wants to Keep More of Your AI Offline, PCMag
I sat down with Qualcomm chief marketing officer Don McGuire Wednesday after watching one of his panels, then turned my notes from that interview into this post.
11/18/2023: Starship’s Second Flight Test Burns Bright But Not Quite Long Enough, PCMag
I assumed that jet lag would have me awake well before the scheduled launch time Saturday of SpaceX’s Starship rocket and so volunteered to write it up. I made a point of noting how much progress this incomplete test represented over April’s messier flight test and nodding to a Reuters report documenting some fairly gruesome workplace-safety issues with Starship.
#BigTech #Desdemona #EnergyRobotics #fixedWirelessAccess #giftGuide #Lisbon #NationalSpectrumStrategy #onDeviceAI #PrivacyNotIncluded #Qualcomm #roboticsStartups #SingularityNet #SpaceX #spectrumBands #Starship #TMobileHome5G #techlash #Verizon5GHome #WebSummit
Listening to #TechPolicyPress [PODCAST] Digital Empires: A Conversation with Anu Bradford
https://pca.st/episode/9d0978f1-3f02-4206-af1c-f62386ae1f47
#edtechSR #China #AI #future #Taiwan #ChipWar #TechCorrection #TechLash
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