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  • Another 1984

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    The beginning of 2025. One year ago, on January 24, 2024 the Mundania-book was launched. It was 40 years after Apple’s iconic 1984-Commercial was aired during the Super Bowl. Much has happened since 1984. Much has happened since January 2024. Organisations, politics, businesses, and the world has transformed. Below is an excerpt from the Mundania-book…

  • Large Numbers

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    The promises and perils of AI are enmeshed with ideas and processes of number crunching and the massage of huge amounts of data and large numbers. What is the role of large numbers in today’s tech-enmeshed society?What does it mean when numbers extend beyond the horizons of imagination? Is it even possible to locate that…

  • Walled Gardens

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    [This is an edited version of a post I wrote 2020 as part of what I called The Mundania Files. Some of this has also been reworked into the Mundania-book, and extended to discuss such things as transparency and what I call brandverses.] Within digital economies around 2020, major companies, such as Amazon Google, Apple,…