Technology
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Existenzminimum in Hampstead
There was a time when Modernism‘s programmatic fracture with exhausted ways of building, dwelling, thinking was celebrated…
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Digital Vanguardism: Internet Trends 2018 & Adair Turner
Apropos Digital Vanguardism, two nice pieces of information are out: [A] – Mary Meeker’s long awaited “Internet…
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Smart Creatives
The best cultures are aspirational. “Over time many companies get comfortable doing what they have always…
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Ross: The Industries of the Future
The importance of a book like “The industries of the future”1 by Alec Ross can hardly…
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Big Data and AI strategies
We live in the so-called dataquake: ‘A few thousands of years ago, you needed to be…
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Relentless pace of automation
It must have felt slightly odd when, at the Morreeb Dunes Festival 2017, United Arabs Emirates,…
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On Chomsky and Hobsbawm (cont’ned)
Upon visiting the splendid mosaics in Villa Romana del Casale (Piazza Armerina), one is reminded very clearly of…
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Feed-forward networks and teleology
Bertrand Russell, in “History of Western Philosophy” pgg. 86-87, writes: The atomists, unlike Socrates, Plato, and…
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Deflation of human agency
One of the premier Art Deco buildings in London, the famed Senate House (above) keeps resonating…
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Ascesa & Declino: “All that is solid melts into air”
In his marvelous study of modernism “All that is solid melts into air“, Marshall Berman claims…
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