Not yet watched it - but I know I will - and if the book is any indicator - should be VERY good.
Edmund Burke 200 years ago:
”The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
”The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.”
”Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.”
.. and many more.
A new design on the home page of my newsletter allows you to more quickly access and assess more of the stories before signing up.
I wonder if Douglas Rushkoff knows about this
”Find the others”
I’m trying Douglas. Early days … but it’s accelerating. When I do find them … they tend to sign up here.
”I don’t share because I have not yet found an identity and privacy respecting social media platform that matches my particular brand of gregarious reclusivity.”
Sometimes I think I need to work out how to explain surveillance capitalism, the Google and Facebook business models and the impact on society if it continues unfettered - without coming off as a total nut job / foil head / off the grid survivalist.
UK still ‘generations away’ from equality in top jobs, study shows.
Generations - and I’m not so sure Boris is going to do anything to accelerate that. (Even if he could.)
Apparently Joe B is now saying that miners should learn to code …
Should Coal Miners Learn To Code?
Is it me?
Trust and reputation have been on my mind a lot recently.
Both are increasingly important to people, yet the logic, measures and metrics behind the corporate owned, isolated and anonymous silos are driven by secret algorithms.
Open protocols need to replace closed platforms.
