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7 November 2023 | Ralf Grötker

Review of The End of Reality: How 4 Billionaires Are Selling a Fantasy Future of the Metaverse, Mars and Crypto (Public Affairs, 2023) by Jonathan Taplin A clique of billionaires is destroying info... »

Big Tech through Marx’s Lens: Digital Economy as Good Old Colonial Capitalism »

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15 July 2021 | Ralf Grötker

Review of The Cost of Connection: How Data Colonizes Human Life and Appropriates it for Capitalism (Stanford University Press) by Nick Couldry and Ulises A. Miejas This is a book about a topic fami... »

Abstract Intelligence – How to Put Human Values into AI »

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27 March 2020 | by Ralf Grötker

Book Review: Human-Compatible – Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control (Viking 2019) by Stuart Russell AI has severe limitations. Still we have reasons to worry – both because of these ... »

Blame the Data »

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18 September 2019 | Jane Whyatt

Book review: Race after Technology by Ruha Benjamin This is a timely book. It hit the market just as three United States cities – San Francisco, Oakland and Somerville – voted to ban facial recogni... »

The Surveillance Capitalist’s Secret Sauce »

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11 June 2019 | Ralf Grötker, Journalist

A how-to explanation in four minutes, including a review of Harvard-sociologist Soshana Zuboff’s latest book Soshana Zuboff’s book “The Age of Surveillance Capitalism” has received an enormous amou... »

Get Messy! »

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28 November 2018 | Dr Ralf Grötker, Journalist

Book Review: Tim Wu. The Curse of Bigness. Antitrust in the New Gilded Age (2017) In March 2019, the next elections for the European Parliament will take place. If you think about what you could wi... »

The Paper Resistance »

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6 December 2017 | Ralf Grötker, Journalist.

Book Review: Franklin Foer. World without Mind. The Existential Threat of Big Tech (2017) This is a fantastic book, full of stories and real insights. In the center: the showdown between Franklin F... »

Saving Culture: For The Public Good »

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22 June 2017 | Ralf Grötker, Journalist.

Book Review: Jonathan Taplin Move fast and Break Things: A music manager’s strategy to fight the monopoly power of Google & Co Jonathan Taplin is one of those guys who, judged by the width of t... »

And the Winner Is… »

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17 October 2016 | Waldemar Ingdahl, CEO, think tank Eudoxa

Book Review: Streaming, Sharing, Stealing: Big Data and the Future of Entertainment by Michael D. Smith and Rahul Telang Will publishers, recording labels, and movie studios be able to meet the cha... »

Random Guesses Inevitable »

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25 August 2016 | Ralf Grötker, Journalist

Book Review: Kevin Kelly, The Inevitable. Understanding the 12 Technological Forces that Shape Our Future Choosing „The Inevitable“ as a title for one’s book makes a clear statement: I am in a posi... »