The digital age has ment the end in Ghana of a unique industry and art form. Piles of amazing one-off hand painted publicity posters crafted by local amateurs have now become valued collectables. An exhibition in London surveyed some of them confirming they have taken on a second life…… (TheseContinue Reading
This is what’s keeping me up at night………Continue Reading
Should be fun. “Nothing about Trump should now cast Cheney in a more favourable light. In truth they represent different versions – each nearly a caricature – of the American ruling class. Trump is a vain, imbecilic Master of the Universe who has sleazed his way to the top – first ofContinue Reading
The narrative of a High Tech Guru converges with a feminist writers essay from 1970 on masked group leadership. Are America’s high tech giants good people? The futurist philosopher Yuval Noah Harari thinks Silicon Valley is an engine of dystopian ruin. So why do Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg and others adore him so?Continue Reading
“Sitting in front of infinitely interchangeable and accessible screens, each of us stupidly needs to feel special, and will do what it takes.”Continue Reading
[Surveillance] is how corporations find out intimate details about us that they use for marketing purposes, it’s how governments determine whether we’re a risk or a good citizen or a threat to the nation, and so forth. They call it ubiquitous surveillance. It’s just everywhere, all the time, in theContinue Reading
This Russian military malware attack was intended to permanently disable all computers in the Ukraine. However the action soon spread to the world wide web causing near catastrophic results on computer systems big and small with the costs of repair running into untold hundreds of millions of dollars. The storyContinue Reading
Nick Srnicek is a Lecturer at City, University of London, and author of the book Platform Capitalism, 2017. I just finished this book, recommended and kindly loaned to me by Cheryl, and I found it to be very a concise, clear and instructive read. Quoting McKenzie Wark from the bookContinue Reading
Link sent by Richard. You know, I like to think that the human capacity for credulity is unlimited, unfettered. But the human capacity for self-deception— the ultimate self-credulity — is also unfettered, unlimited. I look at him and I think to myself: You can’t really believe this stuff. And yet,Continue Reading