Sunday, 7. May 12017
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5 Stunning Interactive Mini-Sites Made by the BBC.

Net Neutrality – NOT!

Giving the Behemoths a Leg Up on the Little Guy.

Every year, the internet gets a little less fair. The corporations that run it get a little bigger, their power grows more concentrated, and a bit of their idealism gives way to ruthless pragmatism.

And if Ajit Pai, the new chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, gets his way, the hegemons are likely to grow only larger and more powerful.

Roger Penrose On Why Consciousness Does Not Compute.

Marvin Minsky once told me that the study of consciousness is “what people wasted their time on in the 20th century.”

Bot und die Welt: Wer darf Autor sein? Wer hat Autorität? Wer ist Fake News?

Wie entstehen Informationen und was sie erzählen sie über die Welt? Wie ist die Welt gebaut und welchen Platz haben wir in ihr? Wer darf Autor sein? Wer hat Autorität? Welche Rolle spielen Bots und Algorithmen? Dem Streit über Fake News liegen nicht zuletzt diese komplexen Fragen zu Grunde. Doch sie werden noch nicht annähernd diskutiert. Berliner Gazette-Herausgeber Krystian Woznicki unternimmt eine erste Bestandsaufnahme.

The complexity of social problems is outsmarting the human brain.

The best defence against combative ideologies isn’t more facts, but an admission of the limits to our knowledge

Is this what a city looks like in its dreams? A 360° dive into Tokyo.

William Baumol, whose famous economic theory explains the modern world, has died.

Throughout history, and still today, women are shamed for menstruating.

I regret that I’m now too old to announce on a crowded train: ‘I’m having a heavy period. Is anyone going to offer me their seat?’

Design thinking, as it was conceived 15 years ago, has outlived its usefulness. Enter systems thinking.

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