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the example given is about journalism, in the roleplaying people are the staff of a newspaper in distress

"The future will like arrive in part by design and in part by disaster. Our challenge is to try to constitute the future through planning and community action, not have the future constitute us," said Alexander.

This is an interesting point of view which reminds me of the Solid-discussion we had. Solid allows the user to control her data and to have an overview of personal data. It also allows seamless integration of many information types and as such it can be used to streamline information at companies and institutions. So Solid could just as well be used to connect seamlessly many types of information about you and me. Maybe we could still consult that information in readable-but-not-writable form, but it would be of even bigger interest to surveillance professionals from states and private companies who probably would have to means to get this information in a readable and writable form.

Title: Facebook worker living in garage to Zuckerberg: challenges are right outside your door Excerpt: As the Facebook CEO travels across the US to 'learn about people's hopes and challenges', the cafeteria workers at his company struggle to make en…

Title: Roomba's Next Big Step Is Selling Maps of Your Home to the Highest Bidder Excerpt: The Roomba is generally regarded as a cute little robot friend that no one but dogs would consider to be a potential menace. But for the last couple of years, …

a last one about the sidebar in Roam (there is far more possible in the sidebard than what you can see in this video, the video maker has a whole series)

Even the Chinese warn for the social consequences of AI

Title: Snopes Faces an Ugly Legal Battle Excerpt: The internet's favorite fact-checkers are caught in a messy dispute. On Monday, the editorial staff of Snopes.com wrote a short plea for help.

Les Traceurs is a game that allows you to collaboratively produce the Story of an event (be it a meeting, a conference, a workshop, a festival, a web-festival, etc...), almost live, and to disseminate it to the relevant federations and communities across the Internets.

Video-conferencing firm's clients include the US government, Amnesty International and Spotify. A Norwegian videoconferencing company whose technology is used by the US government, Amnesty International, Spotify and PayPal is seeking to raise $200m in what could be the largest software IPO in Scandinavia.

Could be interesting, the history of DARPA - the place where so many innovations began and will come from

"improve the overall intelligence produced by the ecosystem. By providing means and channels to relate and transact value through relationships, platforms are the tools that are augmenting our global intelligence."

'we'll begin to unpack the 10-year vision of a contextually-aware, AI-powered interface for augmented reality (AR) glasses that can use the information you choose to share, to infer what you want to do, when you want to do it'

Worth a read. I note the comment that the book equates AI with Deep Learning, which would be a shame.

by Renée DiResta, the Technical research manager at the Stanford Internet Observatory. "Disinformation campaigns used to require a lot of human effort, but artificial intelligence will take them to a whole new level"

I checked this out on my Oculus Quest. The Quest has a passthrough feature, enabling you to see the real world once you get outside the virtual gamezone. However, that cannot be compare to 'real' AR goggles such as the Hololens. All of which means that inside the Quest the VR meetings are not holographic, but just VR - but even so rather interesting.

Transscript of DWeb panel. "Many of us know that the Internet is broken, so how do we build something better? On September 22, DWeb San Francisco invited a panel of experts to share their views on the most viable paths forward. The panelists included author & EFF advisor Cory Doctorow, Matrix.org co-founder Amandine Le Pape, decentralized social media researcher Jay Graber, and TechDirt's Mike Masnick. They covered a range of approaches - including technical, regulatory, and organizational - that could bring us towards a future where our networks are more resilient, participatory, and decentralized."

coveillance: the documentation of our interactions with others

The great British Brexit robbery: how our democracy was hijacked https://t.co/u3VerGKEHQ