meshedsociety.com

Zuckerberg's promise about fixing Facebook does not extend to Instagram January 19, 2018 Misc Instagram has just turned on a so called

The slippery slope of accepting casualties caused by self-driving cars March 26, 2018 Commentary Last week's first ever deadly accident with a self-driving car was tragic for the victim. It was also inevitable. No sane person would expect the technology a

Thank you for Duplex, Google May 11, 2018 Commentary, Ideas With its experimental voice-based digital assistant system for booking appointments called

Most people cannot leave Facebook April 30, 2018 Analysis It's time to spell out something which everybody already knows: The majority of the 2 billion Facebook users are unable to leave Facebook, no matter how much they would want to. A mix of different

Leaving Social Media, one step at a time February 4, 2019 Commentary After about 2 years of having been mostly inactive on my personal Twitter account, I decided to initiate the next step in my ongoing process to withdraw from Social Media, by deleting 24

Insights and learnings after 10 years as a curator April 16, 2019 Misc After soon about 10 years as freelance curator (first part time, now basically full time for various projects) with focus on written content, I am going to share some insights and lear

How Facebook and Google could collapse December 6, 2018 Commentary, Misc What do Google and Facebook have in common, aside from that they are multi-billion dollar tech giants headquartered in Silicon Valley? Both companies currently experience massive int

Algorithmic survival of the fittest November 10, 2018 Analysis, Commentary In Darwin's evolutionary theory, the concept of survival of the fittest stands for the phenomenon that the traits of life forms that have the biggest reproductive success will, ove

Humans have handed over their minds to the AI February 6, 2018 Analysis Who decides which information and knowledge people have access to? Increasingly, algorithms. People get information and news from feeds, search engines and recommendation systems whic