Avoiding Catastrophes Charter
Goals: Like our name, we strive to AVOID CATASTROPHES. To do this, we want to think about how collective futuring can prevent a decaying future as forecasted by futurists such as Kenneth W. Gatland in...
View ArticleIs It True Big Data?
Today we have been assimilated into a society where technology is now inevitable. With easy access to information stored in our devices, big data allows us to gain more information about our...
View ArticleWake up to the Anthropocene
Whether or not the proposed human epoch, the Anthropocene, becomes geologically accepted, there is sufficient cause to raise concern regarding the irrefutable impact of humans on earth. We have...
View ArticleBig Data: Privacy concern or our own stupidity?
Historically, ‘Big data’ has involved the storage and transmission of data processing. However, more recently it has been given more recognition based on our realization that companies and large...
View ArticleAnthropocene – Meet the Meat
The future is something no one can ever perfectly predict, but we still have the ability to foresee how it may evolve into; either a bright future or a catastrophic ending. Definitely, the society will...
View ArticleBig Data: The Web Ecosystem
With the rise of a new ecosystem, the web or the “Internet of Things” (Bradford 2015), comes the threats processes such as data mining and user profiling pose to the privacy of individuals. Digital...
View ArticleThe Anthropocene: Is it too late for earth?
The Anthropocene is a newly “defined proposed geological” epoch which “names the particular influence humans have on the earth” (Crosby, A) and its ecosystems. It was based upon an era of time where we...
View ArticleBig Data – A fine line between efficiency and dystopia
Within big data, lays notions that involve the transference and storage of data, however, it ultimately is brought to issues of identity and privacy. Most users that input data or transfer data over...
View ArticleHuman Technology Interactions: The balance between the creator and the created
Human technology interactions/relations as called upon by Langdon Winner in the week 5 readings entitled “Do Artifacts Have Politics?” discuss not only the environmental contributions of technologies,...
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