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  • 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,…