For a client, I am researching the area of Social Technologies – that is, the humane use of innovative technologies in social care, including care of the elderly and infirm – to understand how this domain can be intelligently and effectively supported.
Tag archives: Technology
Review: Nesta: Pulling the plug: what should a human-centric European Internet look like?, 2018
On Wednesday early evening in London Nesta is hosting the first of a series of provocations on ‘how European citizens can retake control over the future of the internet’. Pulling the plug: what should a human-centric European Internet look like? Is part of the Next Generation Internet initiative, the European Commission’s programme focused on building …
The Socialist Origins of Big Data
Society and technology academic Evgeny Morozov has been researching early 1970s Chilean President Allende’s Project Cybersyn to bring socialism into the computer age under the rubric of ‘the origins of the Big Data nation’. The Socialist Origins of Big Data by Evgeny Morozov, The New Yorker, October 6, 2014 https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/10/13/planning-machine Tim Martin started a discussion …
Review: InRealLife documentary sees the life in technology
Seasoned documentary-maker Beeban Kidron’s film InRealLife is an investigation into the relationship of teenagers, digital technology and the Internet, taking as its subjects British teenagers in particular, and Western youth in general. It begins with an extended interview with two teenage boys talking about their use of porn, and how they remember pornographic images when …
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In conversation: Jimmy Wales, 2012
As part of the Mayor’s London 2012 Debates – hosted to complement the London 2012 Olympics – which took place in the City Hall council chamber, I conducted an ‘in conversation’ with Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales on ‘Technology: Disruption and Convergence’; chaired contributions by selected respondents; and facilitated an audience Q&A. I was also involved …