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  1. A good book to read at the moment

    The challenges facing humanity as the digital future poses, the first detailed examination of the unparalleled form of power called "surveillance capitalism", and the power enterprise's quest to predict and control our behavior.
    In this masterpiece of original thinking and research, Shoshana Zuboff provides startling insights into the phenomenon she has called surveillance capitalism. The effort cannot be higher: a global architecture for behavior modification threatens human nature in the twenty-first century, just as industrial capitalism disfigured the natural world in the twentieth.
    Zuboff brings to life the consequences when surveillance capitalism goes from Silicon Valley to all economic sectors. Great wealth and power are gathered in ominously new "behavioral future markets", where predictions of our behavior are bought and sold, and the production of goods and services is subordinate to a new "means of behavior modification."
    The threat has shifted from a totalitarian Big Brother state to a ubiquitous digital architecture: a "Big Other" operating in the interest of surveillance capital. Here, the crucible of a unique form of power is characterized by extreme concentrations of knowledge and free from democratic oversight. Zuboff's comprehensive and moving analysis only adds to the threats to the 21st century in society: a controlled "hive" of total connection that seduces with promises of total security for maximum profit - at the expense of democracy, freedom and our human future.
    With little opposition from law or society, surveillance capitalism is on the verge of dominating the social order and shaping the digital future - if we allow it.

     

     

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  2. 12 minutes ago, torturedsole said:

    Maybe I'm having a sense of humour failure or something, but I'm not sure laughing at impoverished people in their time of need is most appropriate.  I wouldn't see my worst enemy go hungry.  I much prefer to feed him and give him grief at a later, more appropriate, date.  ????

    I've lived in Thailand for 15 years and never got anything for free. That's why I laugh all day
    and throws bread crumbs over the wall

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  3. Nordmann lives in New Orleans: - There are third world conditions here.
    The corona epidemic has revealed how disadvantaged the United States is. The hospitals lack the most basic equipment, and now have to beg for help from companies and individuals.

     

    However, The Washington Post newspaper revealed that the president and the White House received repeated warnings from the US intelligence services about how dangerous the epidemic could be. Already in January, they reported that the corona could develop into a global threat, but that the Chinese authorities were very late in telling the world about the disease.

    Now Trump blames China for keeping the outbreak of disease secret at first. But at the same time, his government and the United States have lost 10 valuable weeks to prevent the outbreak. Because in January, Trump did not heed the warnings of his own intelligence services.

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