Internet before and its growing pains (5/5)

Internet before and its growing pains (5/5)

Internet before and its growing pains (5/5) The Facebook Cambridge Analytica data scandal shows that groups of people can be influenced by the internet in their decision making processes, such as choosing a president. By using their data, turning it into models, and...
Internet before and its growing pains (4/5)

Internet before and its growing pains (4/5)

Internet before and its growing pains (4/5) Zuboff argues that this system undermines privacy, autonomy, and democracy by turning human experience into raw material for profit, creating asymmetries of power between tech companies and individuals. It shifts control of...
Internet before and its growing pains (3/5)

Internet before and its growing pains (3/5)

Internet before and its growing pains (3/5) Studying the history of technology, I was surprised to learn that the electric car was already invented around the same period (1820s) as the gasoline-powered car. For various reasons the gasoline-powered car became ‘the...
Internet before and its growing pains (2/5)

Internet before and its growing pains (2/5)

Internet before and its growing pains (2/5) I found another external hard drive, and I am pretty sure the file is on it, but my MacBook doesn’t recognize it. I tried my other HP laptop and there it is: FREECOM! 74,5 GB of data. If only I remembered the file name… I...
Internet before and its growing pains (1/5)

Internet before and its growing pains (1/5)

Internet before and its growing pains (1/5) I remember writing an essay at university about writing and my aversion to it. When there are already so many books, articles and things that have been written, what can I possibly add? For the last hour, I have been...