Michael Zimmerman

Podcast #24: Michael Zimmerman Gets Philosophical on Tech

In a wide-ranging conversation, philosopher Michael Zimmerman contextualizes our technological journey within the history of Western thought.

By Mo Lotman | January 9, 2019 | Artificial Intelligence, Culture, Employment, Environment, Ethics, Knowledge, Philosophy, Podcasts, Religion, Society | Acts of Enclosure, Addiction, Agriculture, Ancient World, Anger, Aristotle, Arnold Toynbee, Artificial General Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence, Authenticity, Axial Age, Behavior, Bible, Bolsheviks, Boundaries, Buddhism, Capitlism, Carolyn Merchant, Christianity, Civilization, Control, Craving, Creativity, CRISPR, David Loy, Death, Decadence, Deep Ecology, Delusion, Desire, Distraction, Earth, Ease, Embodiment, Engineering, Environment, Eternity, Exploitation, Exponential Growth, Facebook, Fake News, Fate, Finitude, Fire, Francis Bacon, Friedrich Nietzsche, Gnosticism, Golden Rule, Google, Greed, Hatred, Hegel, Heiddeger, Hubris, Human Nature, Humanness, Immaturity, Immortality, Industrial Revolution, Infantilization, Isaiah, Islam, Jaron Lanier, Karl Jaspers, Karl Marx, Knowledge, Lab-Grown Meat, Life, Loss, Martin Rees, Marxism, Master-Slave Dialectic, Meaning, Meat-Eating, Mediation, Medieval World, Metallurgy, Mind, Mining, Modernity, Money Economy, Morality, Mortality, Native Americans, Nature, Nazis, News, Nihilism, Obesity, Pain, Pascal, Peter Thiel, Philosophy, Plato, Playing God, Power, Production, Progress, Propoganda, Protestant Reformation, Ray Kurzweil, Reincarnation, relationships, Religion, René Descartes, Resentment, Resources, Respect, Sailing, Security, Self-Mastery, Silicon Valley, Smartphones, Socialism, Soviets, Spirituality, Splintering, Steve Jobs, Suffering, The Overman, The Singularity, Trade, Traditional Societies, Transhumanism, Twitter, Utopia, Wealth, Wildfires, Will to Power, Wisdom, Wonder

Knightscope Robot

Have the Robot Wars Begun?

Without much oversight or discussion, security robots have begun appearing in public spaces, causing conflicts and raising questions about privacy and human dignity.

By Tom Valovic | January 10, 2018 | Automation, Community, Government, Policing, Privacy, Safety, Security, Society | China, Crime, Facial Recognition, Homeless, Knightscope, Lasers, License Plate Readers, Privacy, Public Space, Riot Control, Robots, San Francisco, Security, SPCA, surveillance, Surveillance Cameras, Tasers, Vandalism

London CCTV surveillance

CCTV: A View on Surveillance From Britain

British citizens may be the most visually surveilled people in the West, with an estimated one camera for every ten people. Critical awareness may slowly be dawning, but will it make any difference?

By Lorenzo Migliorato | January 3, 2018 | Defense, Government, Human Rights, Law, Policing, Privacy, Safety, Security, Society | Authoritarianism, Britain, British Parliament, CCTV, China, Crime, Cybersurveillance, Democracy, England, Facial Recognition, General Data Protection Regulation, Jeremy Bentham, License Plate Readers, London, Orwell, Panopticon, Privacy, Richard Thomas, Security, Slavoj Žižek, surveillance, Surveillance Cameras, Terrorism, The Centre for Information Policy Leadership, UK

Librarian

Worried About Internet Privacy? Visit Your Local Librarian

Librarians have historically taken strong stances on protecting the privacy of patrons. Now, some of them are becoming valuable assets in the fight against online surveillance.

By Lucy Uprichard | May 24, 2017 | Education, Knowledge, Privacy, Society | Abuse of Power, ALA, Alison Macrina, Counter-terrorism, CUNY Graduate Center, Data Collection, Information, ISPs, Law Enforcement, Librarians, Libraries, Library Freedom Project, NSA, Privacy, Security, Social Media, surveillance, Tracking, World War II

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