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When it comes to city-wide transport and communica-tions networks, serving everyone at a high basic level fairly—including driv-ers—is more important than permitting a single company to make enormous profits from a substitute basic private service

I am a director of the Center for Humane Technology where we focus on realigning technology with a clear-eyed model of human nature. And I was before that a design ethicist at Google where I studied the ethics of human persuasion

For example, if the declarations that establishedsurveillance capitalism are chal-lenged, we might discover that „bigdata“ are larded with illicit surveillance assets who’s ownership issubject to legal contest and liability. In an alternative social and legalregime, surveillance assets could become toxic assets strewn throughthe world’s data flows in much the same way that bad mortgage debtwas baked into financial instruments that abruptly lost value when theirstatus function was challenged by new facts

he prevalence of t he logicof the space of flows over the space of p l a c e s.The space of flows structures and s h a p es t hespace of p l a c e s, as when the differential fortunesof capital accumulation in g l o b al financial m a r-kets reward or p u n i sh specific regions, or whentelecom systems link up C B Ds to o u t l y i ng sub

The ‘Internet of Blockchain’ foundation (IBF) aims to counter exactly that. The mission is to foster adoption and push the transition to the Web 3.0; a more user-centric web where we retain complete ownership of our data, identity and digital asset

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