Big Data

3rd May 2018 Boaz Shoshan

First data, then hellfire

Have you ever heard of a whisky called Rattlesnake Rosie’s? Its apple pie flavoured. That’s right – apple pie whisky. Whatever will they think of next? Its American made, of course. I came across it at a bar in New…

28th March 2018 Bill Bonner

All Hail the Techs

GUALFIN, ARGENTINA – All hail the techs! The stock market bounced back with a big gain on Monday. The buy-the-dippers gained a couple of points. The future can wait; the big crash is still ahead.

13th July 2017 Boaz Shoshan

Knowledge beyond knowledge, sorrow beyond sorrow

In 2007, Google launched a new application. It was Google Street View, and its aim was to allow anyone with access to the internet, access to the world. Hidden behind this noble goal however, was a dark and insidious motive:…

12th July 2017 Boaz Shoshan

Surveillance of a global hallucination

Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation… A graphic representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of…

11th July 2017 Boaz Shoshan

Killing with context

Yesterday we looked at the library of information that is the internet and how we are shepherded through it by librarians like Google and Facebook. Today we look at a tool used by these librarians. While it is used extensively…

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First data, then hellfire

All Hail the Techs

Knowledge beyond knowledge, sorrow beyond sorrow

Surveillance of a global hallucination

Killing with context