… then this video is a interesting mirror = the Mad Max of privacy. Hope we find other ways to get back privacy and other civil rights.

Thank you Matteo for link and observation!

not only ordering will be more comfortable, also delivery. But things can get wrong, when machines get self-organized:

thanks Evy for sending the image by QuantumPirate, who provoked amazon with his funny fake.

or at least intelligently: Talks, Debates and Action at the degrowth conference 2014 in Leipzig.

The focus of the 2014 conference is on concrete steps towards a society beyond the imperative of growth. The conference will give room for scientific debates, exchange between activists and economic pioneers as well as artistic approaches to the subject. Both scientific insights and concrete projects and policies will be presented, experimented with and discussed. It is part of an international cycle of events: so far, there have been conferences on degrowth in Paris 2008, in Barcelona 2010 and in Venice and Montreal 2012.

… a growth-based economic and social system cannot have a future … read more.

The program is rich and covers many dimensions of the complex topic with several facets. The schedule on the web site gains access to the intertwingled papers and events of divers formats = a nice hypertext with a not-so-nice user interface and visual presentation.

via designdesaster

A concise Joseph J. Atick discourse on the power and risk brought by the combination of face recognition, the ubiquity of point-and-shot camera (mobile phones), the availability of identified faces on the web together with public information on everybody:

Atick must know, he “had co-founded one of the original facial recognition companies, Visionics Corporation. Over the years, Dr. Atick co-founded and managed several companies focused on technology transfer and development, and has served as a technical advisor to many high-tech enterprises and organizations, including NATO” says his profile on forbes.

Für eingefleischte Vegetarier nicht neues – gutes Futter, um sich bei Fleischfreunden beliebt zu machen:

DER FLEISCHATLAS 

Daten und Fakten über Tiere als Nahrungsmittel der Monde Diplomatique zum download als PDF.

Google presented its new self-driving car in a really smart and sympathetic video, where normal non-geek people express there genuine fascination about the magically driving car.

But i find very convincing the argument of Frank Rieger (speaker of the CCC): Google invests in self-driving cars, so that people have more time to use their apps and click their ads.

Every member of the family can use Dash to easily add items to your AmazonFresh shopping list. Keep it on your kitchen counter or hang it on the refrigerator. Did your kids just eat the last of the cereal? Conveniently refill and restock your home’s everyday essentials, and have fun doing it.

… just stay home and everything you need arrives. Don’t waist time in the world outside. Another little step towards a brave new world matrix black mirror.

more on fresh.amazon.com/dash/
@Matteo: Thanks for the link!

… the late-capitalist digital death, a media event so intoxicating that even people who are not technically “celebrated” are seconded from their death scenes, to the benefit of nothing.

interesting article about the (social) media echo on the death of Peaches Geldof (the guardian).

den 3 Grundsätzen vom Unternehmer Heini Staudinger (GEA) ist nichts hinzuzufügen, außer vielleicht eine Übersetzung für unsere norddeutschen Freunde ;)

1. Geh, scheiss di ned oa (“Fürchte Dich nicht” würde Jesus sagen ;)

2. Bitte sei ned so deppert (“Sei nicht Naiv, sondern probiere alles gut abzuwägen”)

3. Lass di leitn von da Liebe (“Let Love Rule”)

und ganz nebenbei sagt der Heini ein paar Schlaue Sachen über Branding und Werbung.