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www.newscientist.com/article/2494268-weve-finally-cracked-how-to-make-truly-random-numbers/
Il y a longtemps qu’on sait faire cela, si j’en crois ma récente (et très documentée) lecture de «Toutes les intelligences du monde», de James Bridle. Simplement, le recours à un système externe "analogique" était jusque-là nécessaire pour l’atteindre, comme avec Ernie:
nsandi-corporate.com/media-resources/ernie
C’est un sujet que je trouve passionnant mais je suis trop une bille en mathématiques pour bien comprendre.
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We have known how to do this for a long time, if I am to believe my recent (and very well-documented) reading of James Bridle's "All the World's Intelligence". Simply put, until now, an external "analogue" system was needed to achieve this, as with Ernie.
I find this subject fascinating, but I'm too bad at maths to really understand it.
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"the financial system [is] a system that's so complex that no one particularly designed, that we're all just sort of wrangling with. And it has outcomes that no one intended and certainly no one planned for. And we live inside systems like that all of the time." @jamesbridle #JamesBridle #Podcast #Agency
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"the financial system [is] a system that's so complex that no one particularly designed, that we're all just sort of wrangling with. And it has outcomes that no one intended and certainly no one planned for. And we live inside systems like that all of the time." @jamesbridle #JamesBridle #Podcast #Agency
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"There's a very strange thing that happens with #advancedtech, particularly #networked technologies. They get hidden away behind the glass. They become hidden within themselves and we no longer have access to them.
But something equally extraordinary happens the other way around, which is that if you start to understand them a little bit, all of these #power relationships become incredibly clear and #readable, and can actually be addressed in new ways." #JamesBridle
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"There's a very strange thing that happens with #advancedtech, particularly #networked technologies. They get hidden away behind the glass. They become hidden within themselves and we no longer have access to them.
But something equally extraordinary happens the other way around, which is that if you start to understand them a little bit, all of these #power relationships become incredibly clear and #readable, and can actually be addressed in new ways." #JamesBridle
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"There's a very strange thing that happens with #advancedtech, particularly #networked technologies. They get hidden away behind the glass. They become hidden within themselves and we no longer have access to them.
But something equally extraordinary happens the other way around, which is that if you start to understand them a little bit, all of these #power relationships become incredibly clear and #readable, and can actually be addressed in new ways." #JamesBridle
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"There's a very strange thing that happens with #advancedtech, particularly #networked technologies. They get hidden away behind the glass. They become hidden within themselves and we no longer have access to them.
But something equally extraordinary happens the other way around, which is that if you start to understand them a little bit, all of these #power relationships become incredibly clear and #readable, and can actually be addressed in new ways." #JamesBridle
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"There's a very strange thing that happens with #advancedtech, particularly #networked technologies. They get hidden away behind the glass. They become hidden within themselves and we no longer have access to them.
But something equally extraordinary happens the other way around, which is that if you start to understand them a little bit, all of these #power relationships become incredibly clear and #readable, and can actually be addressed in new ways." #JamesBridle
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"This talk by #JamesBridle was part of '#OtherMinds', a season of work exploring different kinds of #intelligence: animal, mechanical, collective. In September 2024, #Watershed shared projects that ask what it means to work with minds that are utterly unlike our own, and how 'AI' can be part of a wider conversation about intelligence, labour, and creativity."
#WaysOfBeing
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"This talk by #JamesBridle was part of '#OtherMinds', a season of work exploring different kinds of #intelligence: animal, mechanical, collective. In September 2024, #Watershed shared projects that ask what it means to work with minds that are utterly unlike our own, and how 'AI' can be part of a wider conversation about intelligence, labour, and creativity."
#WaysOfBeing
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"This talk by #JamesBridle was part of '#OtherMinds', a season of work exploring different kinds of #intelligence: animal, mechanical, collective. In September 2024, #Watershed shared projects that ask what it means to work with minds that are utterly unlike our own, and how 'AI' can be part of a wider conversation about intelligence, labour, and creativity."
#WaysOfBeing
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"This talk by #JamesBridle was part of '#OtherMinds', a season of work exploring different kinds of #intelligence: animal, mechanical, collective. In September 2024, #Watershed shared projects that ask what it means to work with minds that are utterly unlike our own, and how 'AI' can be part of a wider conversation about intelligence, labour, and creativity."
#WaysOfBeing
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"This talk by #JamesBridle was part of '#OtherMinds', a season of work exploring different kinds of #intelligence: animal, mechanical, collective. In September 2024, #Watershed shared projects that ask what it means to work with minds that are utterly unlike our own, and how 'AI' can be part of a wider conversation about intelligence, labour, and creativity."
#WaysOfBeing
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Some of what I read in 2023
Not the only books I read in 2023 but certainly the three that I sat with the longest (literally, to the point of getting nasty-grams from the library); James Bridle; Ways of Being, Titus Kaphar Reginald Wayne Betts; Redaction and All Your Racial Problems Will Soon End: The Cartoons of Charles Johnson.
Was familiar with his work from back in the days of the New Aesthetic. Starts by de-centering humans, for the more than human. From Wood Wide Webs to the interbred genetic mutts that were our ancestors, to Ford Doolittle’s “reticulated” tree of life.
Then outlines an alternative history of computers/machines. Of slime machines and crab or water computers. Explores different histories and forms of entanglement. A vision of better machines that are “non-binary” and decentralized. On facilitating diversity through the problem and power of randomness. Using sortition for governing and structuring society.
Ultimately, he argues for a more than human politics and aligns with Kropotkin’s idea of solidarity as mutual aid and support. For care “as crucial to our thinking about technology as it is to ecology”.
“Its name is solidarity. That is the name we give to that form of politics which best describes a yearning towards entanglement, to the mutual benefit of all parties”
https://cdn2.wwnorton.com/wwnproducts/TRADE/4/2/9781324006824/9781324006824_300.jpg
Wasn’t familiar with any of the contributors. Loved it. Really was a third exhibition/art-piece, not just something to read. Generally speaking the Redaction sections resonated with me more. The etched portraits generally (with some exceptions) felt more weighted by historic styles/portraiture, while the former felt more contemporary. I was a big fan of the photos of and obvious craft-work that went into the making of the book/objet d’art. I also really loved the included poetry and this line
via https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/711051/all-your-racial-problems-will-soon-end-by-charles-johnson/“In this world that measures losses in monuments.”
What a revelation! The book illustrates and “chronologically” follows Johnson’s own transition from basically a teen, to a more politically conscious, radical Marxist Socialist (with references to Fanon, Mao etc). Then different themes; of Buddhism, enlightenment or references to Octavia Butler. Which speak to a seemingly less radical politics, if nothing else less externally militant with more of a focus inward. As he outlines, himself in the introduction.
#books #CharlesJohnson #JamesBridle #nonHumanNature #reading #Redaction
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Artist and writer James Bridle was unanimously awarded the biennial Architectural Theory Prize by the Schelling Architecture Foundation in June this year for their “outstanding contributions to architectural theory”.
But on Sunday, ahead of the awards ceremony scheduled for today, Bridle was informed the foundation’s committee would not award them with the prize because they had co-signed a call for a boycott of Israeli cultural institutions.
#culturalBoycott #StrikeGermany #Kultur #Germany #EuropeIsrael #coloniality #proZionism #StandWithIsrael #Arkitektur #architecture #JamesBridle #Schelling #awards #boycott #censorship #prizes
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Artist and writer James Bridle was unanimously awarded the biennial Architectural Theory Prize by the Schelling Architecture Foundation in June this year for their “outstanding contributions to architectural theory”.
But on Sunday, ahead of the awards ceremony scheduled for today, Bridle was informed the foundation’s committee would not award them with the prize because they had co-signed a call for a boycott of Israeli cultural institutions.
#culturalBoycott #StrikeGermany #Kultur #Germany #EuropeIsrael #coloniality #proZionism #StandWithIsrael #Arkitektur #architecture #JamesBridle #Schelling #awards #boycott #censorship #prizes
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Artist and writer James Bridle was unanimously awarded the biennial Architectural Theory Prize by the Schelling Architecture Foundation in June this year for their “outstanding contributions to architectural theory”.
But on Sunday, ahead of the awards ceremony scheduled for today, Bridle was informed the foundation’s committee would not award them with the prize because they had co-signed a call for a boycott of Israeli cultural institutions.
#culturalBoycott #StrikeGermany #Kultur #Germany #EuropeIsrael #coloniality #proZionism #StandWithIsrael #Arkitektur #architecture #JamesBridle #Schelling #awards #boycott #censorship #prizes
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Artist and writer James Bridle was unanimously awarded the biennial Architectural Theory Prize by the Schelling Architecture Foundation in June this year for their “outstanding contributions to architectural theory”.
But on Sunday, ahead of the awards ceremony scheduled for today, Bridle was informed the foundation’s committee would not award them with the prize because they had co-signed a call for a boycott of Israeli cultural institutions.
#culturalBoycott #StrikeGermany #Kultur #Germany #EuropeIsrael #coloniality #proZionism #StandWithIsrael #Arkitektur #architecture #JamesBridle #Schelling #awards #boycott #censorship #prizes
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Artist and writer James Bridle was unanimously awarded the biennial Architectural Theory Prize by the Schelling Architecture Foundation in June this year for their “outstanding contributions to architectural theory”.
But on Sunday, ahead of the awards ceremony scheduled for today, Bridle was informed the foundation’s committee would not award them with the prize because they had co-signed a call for a boycott of Israeli cultural institutions.
#culturalBoycott #StrikeGermany #Kultur #Germany #EuropeIsrael #coloniality #proZionism #StandWithIsrael #Arkitektur #architecture #JamesBridle #Schelling #awards #boycott #censorship #prizes
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Qu'est-ce que l'intelligence ?
Pour l’artiste et chercheur britannique @jamesbridle, si les avancées et les risques de l’informatique sont le plus souvent exagérés, cet emballement pourrait cependant être une porte d’entrée pour qu’enfin l’on s’intéresse aux innombrables autres formes d’intelligence non humaines.
https://www.arte.tv/fr/videos/113629-011-A/qu-est-ce-que-l-intelligence/
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Qu'est-ce que l'intelligence ?
Pour l’artiste et chercheur britannique @jamesbridle, si les avancées et les risques de l’informatique sont le plus souvent exagérés, cet emballement pourrait cependant être une porte d’entrée pour qu’enfin l’on s’intéresse aux innombrables autres formes d’intelligence non humaines.
https://www.arte.tv/fr/videos/113629-011-A/qu-est-ce-que-l-intelligence/
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Qu'est-ce que l'intelligence ?
Pour l’artiste et chercheur britannique @jamesbridle, si les avancées et les risques de l’informatique sont le plus souvent exagérés, cet emballement pourrait cependant être une porte d’entrée pour qu’enfin l’on s’intéresse aux innombrables autres formes d’intelligence non humaines.
https://www.arte.tv/fr/videos/113629-011-A/qu-est-ce-que-l-intelligence/
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Qu'est-ce que l'intelligence ?
Pour l’artiste et chercheur britannique @jamesbridle, si les avancées et les risques de l’informatique sont le plus souvent exagérés, cet emballement pourrait cependant être une porte d’entrée pour qu’enfin l’on s’intéresse aux innombrables autres formes d’intelligence non humaines.
https://www.arte.tv/fr/videos/113629-011-A/qu-est-ce-que-l-intelligence/
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Qu'est-ce que l'intelligence ?
Pour l’artiste et chercheur britannique @jamesbridle, si les avancées et les risques de l’informatique sont le plus souvent exagérés, cet emballement pourrait cependant être une porte d’entrée pour qu’enfin l’on s’intéresse aux innombrables autres formes d’intelligence non humaines.
https://www.arte.tv/fr/videos/113629-011-A/qu-est-ce-que-l-intelligence/
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This excerpt from James Bridle #jamesbridle in Ways of Being seems apposite here. -
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This excerpt from James Bridle #jamesbridle in Ways of Being seems apposite here. -
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This excerpt from James Bridle #jamesbridle in Ways of Being seems apposite here. -
@aral
This excerpt from James Bridle #jamesbridle in Ways of Being seems apposite here. -
... Rather than being a tool to further exploit the planet and one another, artificial intelligence is an opening to other minds, a chance to fully recognize a truth that has been hidden from us for so long. Everything is intelligent, and therefore – along with many other reasons – is worthy of our care and conscious attention." (2/2) #ai #jamesbridle
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"What if, instead of being the thing that separates us from the world and ultimately supplants us, artificial intelligence is another flowering, wholly its own invention, but one which, shepherded by us, leads us to a greater accommodation with the world? ... (1/2) #ai #jamesbridle
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"But I know it makes absolutely no sense to me that you could somehow locate #consciousness within a particular physical structure when it is incredibly clear to me that consciousness is something that exists outside the physical universe, that exists completely outside of everything that we perceive physically, and is something that we partake in.
And as Alan Watts says, we come out of the world like waves out of water." (#JamesBridle)
#human #nature
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"But I know it makes absolutely no sense to me that you could somehow locate #consciousness within a particular physical structure when it is incredibly clear to me that consciousness is something that exists outside the physical universe, that exists completely outside of everything that we perceive physically, and is something that we partake in.
And as Alan Watts says, we come out of the world like waves out of water." (#JamesBridle)
#human #nature
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"But I know it makes absolutely no sense to me that you could somehow locate #consciousness within a particular physical structure when it is incredibly clear to me that consciousness is something that exists outside the physical universe, that exists completely outside of everything that we perceive physically, and is something that we partake in.
And as Alan Watts says, we come out of the world like waves out of water." (#JamesBridle)
#human #nature
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"But I know it makes absolutely no sense to me that you could somehow locate #consciousness within a particular physical structure when it is incredibly clear to me that consciousness is something that exists outside the physical universe, that exists completely outside of everything that we perceive physically, and is something that we partake in.
And as Alan Watts says, we come out of the world like waves out of water." (#JamesBridle)
#human #nature
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"The lesson of the current wave of “artificial” “intelligence”, I feel, is that intelligence is a poor thing when it is imagined by corporations. If your view of the world is one in which profit maximisation is the king of virtues, and all things shall be held to the standard of shareholder value, then of course your artistic, imaginative, aesthetic and emotional expressions will be woefully impoverished." (#JamesBridle)
#ai #chatgpt #chatbot
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/mar/16/the-stupidity-of-ai-artificial-intelligence-dall-e-chatgpt -
"The lesson of the current wave of “artificial” “intelligence”, I feel, is that intelligence is a poor thing when it is imagined by corporations. If your view of the world is one in which profit maximisation is the king of virtues, and all things shall be held to the standard of shareholder value, then of course your artistic, imaginative, aesthetic and emotional expressions will be woefully impoverished." (#JamesBridle)
#ai #chatgpt #chatbot
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/mar/16/the-stupidity-of-ai-artificial-intelligence-dall-e-chatgpt -
"The lesson of the current wave of “artificial” “intelligence”, I feel, is that intelligence is a poor thing when it is imagined by corporations. If your view of the world is one in which profit maximisation is the king of virtues, and all things shall be held to the standard of shareholder value, then of course your artistic, imaginative, aesthetic and emotional expressions will be woefully impoverished." (#JamesBridle)
#ai #chatgpt #chatbot
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/mar/16/the-stupidity-of-ai-artificial-intelligence-dall-e-chatgpt -
"The lesson of the current wave of “artificial” “intelligence”, I feel, is that intelligence is a poor thing when it is imagined by corporations. If your view of the world is one in which profit maximisation is the king of virtues, and all things shall be held to the standard of shareholder value, then of course your artistic, imaginative, aesthetic and emotional expressions will be woefully impoverished." (#JamesBridle)
#ai #chatgpt #chatbot
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/mar/16/the-stupidity-of-ai-artificial-intelligence-dall-e-chatgpt -
In the words of the avant-garde novelist Tom McCarthy, there is no truly original creation, just ‘repetition, repetition and repetition’. In which case what’s so unusual about ChatGPT, Dall-E et al? I’d be more inclined to agree with #jamesbridle's complaint that this kind of AI is based on the ‘wholesale appropriation of existing culture’, if more writers and artists didn’t themselves endlessly produce things that are different yet the same.
Talk about ways of being. Can’t the continual writing of books that are published as commercial products on a copyrighted, all rights reserved basis by a proprietorial corporation such as Verso or Penguin be itself seen as a highly predictable, preprogrammed mode of appropriative performance? Like those of AI image and text generators, aren’t outputs of this kind also ‘dependent on the uncredited and unrenumerated work’ of a multitude of others, including plants and machines?
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In the words of the avant-garde novelist Tom McCarthy, there is no truly original creation, just ‘repetition, repetition and repetition’. In which case what’s so unusual about ChatGPT, Dall-E et al? I’d be more inclined to agree with #jamesbridle's complaint that this kind of AI is based on the ‘wholesale appropriation of existing culture’, if more writers and artists didn’t themselves endlessly produce things that are different yet the same.
Talk about ways of being. Can’t the continual writing of books that are published as commercial products on a copyrighted, all rights reserved basis by a proprietorial corporation such as Verso or Penguin be itself seen as a highly predictable, preprogrammed mode of appropriative performance? Like those of AI image and text generators, aren’t outputs of this kind also ‘dependent on the uncredited and unrenumerated work’ of a multitude of others, including plants and machines?
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In the words of the avant-garde novelist Tom McCarthy, there is no truly original creation, just ‘repetition, repetition and repetition’. In which case what’s so unusual about ChatGPT, Dall-E et al? I’d be more inclined to agree with #jamesbridle's complaint that this kind of AI is based on the ‘wholesale appropriation of existing culture’, if more writers and artists didn’t themselves endlessly produce things that are different yet the same.
Talk about ways of being. Can’t the continual writing of books that are published as commercial products on a copyrighted, all rights reserved basis by a proprietorial corporation such as Verso or Penguin be itself seen as a highly predictable, preprogrammed mode of appropriative performance? Like those of AI image and text generators, aren’t outputs of this kind also ‘dependent on the uncredited and unrenumerated work’ of a multitude of others, including plants and machines?
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In the words of the avant-garde novelist Tom McCarthy, there is no truly original creation, just ‘repetition, repetition and repetition’. In which case what’s so unusual about ChatGPT, Dall-E et al? I’d be more inclined to agree with #jamesbridle's complaint that this kind of AI is based on the ‘wholesale appropriation of existing culture’, if more writers and artists didn’t themselves endlessly produce things that are different yet the same.
Talk about ways of being. Can’t the continual writing of books that are published as commercial products on a copyrighted, all rights reserved basis by a proprietorial corporation such as Verso or Penguin be itself seen as a highly predictable, preprogrammed mode of appropriative performance? Like those of AI image and text generators, aren’t outputs of this kind also ‘dependent on the uncredited and unrenumerated work’ of a multitude of others, including plants and machines?
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“We think so much like computers today because they’ve defined what is thinkable. And so for me, rethinking the computer rethinks what is computable, and therefore rethinks what is thinkable at all about the world.”
#JamesBridle in conversation with Emergence Magazine.
https://emergencemagazine.org/interview/an-ecological-technology/
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“We think so much like computers today because they’ve defined what is thinkable. And so for me, rethinking the computer rethinks what is computable, and therefore rethinks what is thinkable at all about the world.”
#JamesBridle in conversation with Emergence Magazine.
https://emergencemagazine.org/interview/an-ecological-technology/
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“We think so much like computers today because they’ve defined what is thinkable. And so for me, rethinking the computer rethinks what is computable, and therefore rethinks what is thinkable at all about the world.”
#JamesBridle in conversation with Emergence Magazine.
https://emergencemagazine.org/interview/an-ecological-technology/
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“We think so much like computers today because they’ve defined what is thinkable. And so for me, rethinking the computer rethinks what is computable, and therefore rethinks what is thinkable at all about the world.”
#JamesBridle in conversation with Emergence Magazine.
https://emergencemagazine.org/interview/an-ecological-technology/
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Truly lovely episode of #SingularityRadio, an interview with #JamesBridle #agency #WaysOfBeing https://open.spotify.com/episode/1kcClaUdyJHgGBnm8BCEIX?si=yMmPHV_tRueC8llwGVNFYQ&utm_source=copy-link
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Truly lovely episode of #SingularityRadio, an interview with #JamesBridle #agency #WaysOfBeing https://open.spotify.com/episode/1kcClaUdyJHgGBnm8BCEIX?si=yMmPHV_tRueC8llwGVNFYQ&utm_source=copy-link
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Der Künstler James Bridle ist ein Vordenker und Kritiker der digitalen Zukunft. Die Corona-Krise sei eine Chance zu erkennen, dass wir das Internet zur Kommunikation auch ohne die Produkte großer Konzerne nutzen können, um es besser zu machen. „Meine Kritik am digitalen Zeitalter war nie auf die Technologie bezogen, sondern auf die Machtverteilung durch Technologie“, sagt Bridle. #jamesbridle
https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/james-bridle-ueber-digitale-kommunikation-netzwerke.1013.de.html?dram:article_id=472815
