Divisions of Labor – The Future of Work
By: Barbara Ehrenreich February 28, 2017 The working class, or at least the white part, has emerged as our great national mystery. Traditionally Democratic, they helped elect a flamboyantly ostentatious billionaire to the presidency. “What’s wrong with them?” the liberal pundits keep asking. Why do they believe Trump’s promises? Are they stupid or just deplorably […]
Japanese Taxis Are Using Facial Recognition to Target Ads to Riders
By: Futurism April 22, 2019 If you took a cab in Japan this year, you may have come face-to-face with a tablet that scanned your face in order to learn your gender, age, and other characteristics — and used that data to target you with relevant advertisements. The facial recognition system made the rounds on Twitter on Saturday […]
Impact of Technology on Society
By: TouchCore April 16, 2016 When we speak of the impact of technology on society, we always talk about the positive effects of technology and about how technology has made life easy. We talk about the Internet as an information resource and a communication platform and conveniently ignore the fact that an overexposure to it […]
China’s cosmological Communism: a challenge to liberal democracies
By: Merics July 18, 2018 China’s presence and influence is not confined to its own borders or East Asia anymore, but has reached a global scale. In the new MERICS China Monitor Perspectives, “China’s cosmological Communism: A challenge to liberal democracies,” journalist and former MERICS Research Fellow Didi Kirsten Tatlow shows how imperial philosophy meets Marxist orthodoxy in Beijing’s […]
Brutal Startup Is Using Eye Tracking to Force You to Watch Ads
By: Futurism March 22, 2019 The founder of MoviePass is back, and this time he’s not messing around. MoviePass co-founder Stacy Spikes has a new startup called PreShow, and it’s using a business model straight out of “A Clockwork Orange”: The company’s new app helps you score free movie tickets — as long as you sit through 15 […]
Amazon Is Working on a Device That Can Read Human Emotions
By: MSN May 23, 2019 (Bloomberg) — Amazon.com Inc. is developing a voice-activated wearable device that can recognize human emotions. The wrist-worn gadget is described as a health and wellness product in internal documents reviewed by Bloomberg. It’s a collaboration between Lab126, the hardware development group behind Amazon’s Fire phone and Echo smart speaker, and […]
This robot helps patients with their physical therapy.
By: Interesting Engineering July 9, 2019 Watch Full Video
Surveillance apps are being secretly installed on phones of visitors to China, report says
By: David Reid July 03 2019 Police in China are secretly installing spy apps on phones of visitors to the country that can extract emails, texts and address contacts, according to a cross-media investigation. Evidence gathered by the New York Times, The Guardian in England and Suddeutsche Zeiting in Germany has claimed that travelers are […]
We Have Been Harmonised: Life in China’s Surveillance State by Kai Strittmatter – review
By: John Naughton June 30, 2019 Kai Strittmatter is a German journalist who writes for Süddeutsche Zeitung and is currently based in Copenhagen. From 1997 until recently, he had been a foreign correspondent in Beijing. Prior to those postings, he had studied sinology and journalism in Munich, Xi’an and Taipei. So he knows China rather […]