Category: Technology

Tory Cuts Questioned as the NHS Gets Hit by Ransomware

The UK’s NHS got caught up in the major ransomware attack that hit computers around the world yesterday. In the wake of the attack, the Mirror is reporting that the Tories cut…

 

Brexit, Article 50, Theresa May, Jeremy Corbyn, Tory, LabourBrexit, Article 50, United KingdomI'm writing a book on Brexit that I'm serializing. Part1: "It's Not Dead Yet," and Part 2: "Should They Stay or Should They Go" are out now. Part 1 is a short look at the troubles in the EU that helped bring the referendum into being. Part 2 dives into the forces in the UK that helped drive the referendum result. Please have a look.

Rebooting Work – Douglas Rushkoff

 [D]igital technology is expressing and amplifying the embedded values of industrialism. -Douglas Rushkoff http://www.psmag.com/business-economics/the-future-of-work-rebooting-workprogramming-the-economy-for-people   I’m writing a book on Brexit that I’m serializing. Part1: “It’s Not Dead Yet,” and…

 

Brexit, Article 50, Theresa May, Jeremy Corbyn, Tory, LabourBrexit, Article 50, United KingdomI'm writing a book on Brexit that I'm serializing. Part1: "It's Not Dead Yet," and Part 2: "Should They Stay or Should They Go" are out now. Part 1 is a short look at the troubles in the EU that helped bring the referendum into being. Part 2 dives into the forces in the UK that helped drive the referendum result. Please have a look.

Alan Winfield’s Web Log: Robots should not be gendered

Should robots be gendered? I have serious doubts about the morality of designing and building robots to resemble men or women, boys or girls. Let me explain why. The first…

 

Brexit, Article 50, Theresa May, Jeremy Corbyn, Tory, LabourBrexit, Article 50, United KingdomI'm writing a book on Brexit that I'm serializing. Part1: "It's Not Dead Yet," and Part 2: "Should They Stay or Should They Go" are out now. Part 1 is a short look at the troubles in the EU that helped bring the referendum into being. Part 2 dives into the forces in the UK that helped drive the referendum result. Please have a look.

New Report Reveals Just How Badly Black Women-Led Startups Are Being Underfunded |Co.exist

Black women lead just .04% of the total number of women-led tech startups in the U.S., according to a newly released report by Digital Undivided’s #ProjectDiane—a research study evaluating 88…

 

Brexit, Article 50, Theresa May, Jeremy Corbyn, Tory, LabourBrexit, Article 50, United KingdomI'm writing a book on Brexit that I'm serializing. Part1: "It's Not Dead Yet," and Part 2: "Should They Stay or Should They Go" are out now. Part 1 is a short look at the troubles in the EU that helped bring the referendum into being. Part 2 dives into the forces in the UK that helped drive the referendum result. Please have a look.

With this ‘mirage of a marketplace’, Uber is taking its customers for a ride | John Naughton

The crassness of neoliberalism lies in its insistence that markets represent the only way of making them. Hence the belief that one can make organisations such as the NHS or…

 

Brexit, Article 50, Theresa May, Jeremy Corbyn, Tory, LabourBrexit, Article 50, United KingdomI'm writing a book on Brexit that I'm serializing. Part1: "It's Not Dead Yet," and Part 2: "Should They Stay or Should They Go" are out now. Part 1 is a short look at the troubles in the EU that helped bring the referendum into being. Part 2 dives into the forces in the UK that helped drive the referendum result. Please have a look.

Techno-skeptics’ objection growing louder – The Washington Post

Techno-skeptics, or whatever you want to call them — “humanists” may be the best term — sense that human needs are getting lost in the tech frenzy, that the priorities…

 

Brexit, Article 50, Theresa May, Jeremy Corbyn, Tory, LabourBrexit, Article 50, United KingdomI'm writing a book on Brexit that I'm serializing. Part1: "It's Not Dead Yet," and Part 2: "Should They Stay or Should They Go" are out now. Part 1 is a short look at the troubles in the EU that helped bring the referendum into being. Part 2 dives into the forces in the UK that helped drive the referendum result. Please have a look.