Expert Analysis

What Do We Do with Big Tech Companies?

21 May 2019
Not a day goes by without someone propounding another genius theory to finally bring an end to the pain point of what we are going to do with these platform businesses, large digital companies. They even take it to the extreme by suggesting that we do not even need social media, since the harm it does overrides any good it may be serving. In my last article, I have tried to touch upon the various…
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Expert Analysis

An Antitrust Dilemma: Should We Break Them Up / Open

7 May 2019
We all heard of Senator Elizabeth Warren’s proposal as to how we should be dealing with the large digital companies: “Break up or break open!”  Running for president of the United States, Warren proposed using the antitrust laws to do just that. Her proposal must have…
Expert Analysis

Freedom of Speech vs. the Fate of Liberal Democracy

22 April 2019
Discussions regarding the need to regulate social media platforms and their contents escalated with the horrific shooting in the city of Christchurch. It is not that many countries, spearheaded by the European Union have not already covered a great distance on the matter…
Expert Analysis

Privacy Challenges of Disruptive Technologies

2 April 2019
“In October (2018), Ann Cavoukian, the Director of Privacy for Alphabet’s Sidewalk Labs smart neighborhood project in Toronto (an advanced smart city project) resigned after learning that not all data collected from residents would be de-identified at the source. In her resignation letter, Cavoukian likened the project to a “smart city of surveillance,” highlighting privacy concerns…
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Expert Analysis

How to Regulate Disruptive Innovation

12 March 2019
The digital economy requires a legal environment fit for the future. As emerging technologies create new business models, there grows a pressing need for creating, modifying and enforcing regulations. Yet, the challenge is finding a delicate balance between protecting public…
21. Century Zeitgeist

Design and Architecture for Sustainable Innovation

5 March 2019
While technology triggers transformation in every aspect of our life, do design and architecture succeed to keep up with this change to provide us with suitable habitats to live in? Architecture is an industry inspired and transformed by evolution. Take Brunelleschi’s…
21. Century Zeitgeist

Digital Arts in a Digital Age

19 February 2019
From airplane patterns, to music rhythms, roads and various trackable human habits, online data is used to explore new frontiers in digital arts. The resulting images, figures or pieces are not just condensed information; it’s art. Data is the digital equivalent of a painter’s brush and canvas. Today, data driven art is an ever-growing field, yet there is no doubt that we have barely…
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Exponential Growth

Regulating Disruptive Technologies

5 February 2019
New technological developments not only disrupt traditional economic and social status quo, but they also require a new order to be established and comprehensive set of regulations to be designed. As we watch technologies emerge, develop and disrupt with the speed of…
21. Century Zeitgeist

Manipulation of Viewpoint

29 January 2019
Our interpretation of history as well as our time, as it unfolds, are influenced by what we see, watch and read. How authentic, reconstructred or falsified they are? How are we influenced about how images conveyed messages? Do you recall the photograph in the title, which…