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FuturICT Blog: March 2014
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Tuesday, 11 March 2014. OVERCOMING "TRAGEDIES OF THE COMMONS" WITH A SELF-REGULATING, PARTICIPATORY MARKET SOCIETY. In many European countries, unemployment is reaching historical heights. The forthcoming economic and social impact of future information and communication technologies (ICT) will be huge - probably more significant than that caused by the steam engine, or by nano- or biotechnology. It was long believed that the merciless forces of evolution and natural selection could not have created man ...
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FuturICT Blog: December 2013
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Wednesday, 11 December 2013. WITHOUT FREEDOM, WE ARE NO LONGER CITIZENS. Guest Post By Vincenzo Pavone. IPP-CSIC) and Elvira Santiago (IPP-CSIC). Big Brother 2.0? Is high-volume, high-velocity and high-variety information assets that demand cost-effective, innovative forms of information processing for enhanced insight and decision-making. This is, in a few words, the basic assumption proposed by what is known as a co-production approach in science and technology studies [3]. Of cars and Big Data. While ...
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FuturICT Blog: July 2015
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Thursday, 30 July 2015. WHY PRIVACY IS STILL NEEDED. Should we still care about privacy, even though many people don't mind giving a lot of personal data away? I believe, we do need to care. The feeling of being exposed scares many people, particularly minorities. The success of our society depends a lot on minorities, but these are vulnerable. Correctly concludes, the continuous and uncontrolled recording of data about individual behaviors is undermining. Big Data would make it possible to discover and ...
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FuturICT Blog: October 2013
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Tuesday, 15 October 2013. SCIENTISTS MUST SPEARHEAD ETHICAL USE OF BIG DATA. Guest post from ALBERT-LÁSZLÓ BARABÁSI. The recent revelation that the National Security Agency collects the personal data of United States citizens, allies and enemies alike has broken the traditional model governing the bond between science and society. As the NSA secretly developed its unparalleled surveillance program, relying on a mixture of tools rooted in computer and social sciences, this model failed. Scientists who...
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FuturICT Blog: DEMOCRACY AND FREEDOM: Outdated concepts?
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Wednesday, 17 June 2015. DEMOCRACY AND FREEDOM: Outdated concepts? These days, many people seem to be asking: "Are the concepts of freedom and democracy obsolete? Let us look into this. The "freedom of will". Or "freedom of decision-making". Now, however, countries such as Singapore and China are experiencing larger economic growth rates, even though they restrict individual freedom. Should other countries copy their model? Recently, new critique of the "freedom of decision-making". From a societal persp...
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FuturICT Blog: June 2015
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Sunday, 21 June 2015. Can Corporate Control or the "China Model" Heal the World? And (2) giving more control to multi-national corporations, as they tend to be more efficient than government institutions. Has the French Revolution been a tragic historical accident that is now making our lives more difficult? Are democratic decision-making procedures outdated and blocking our way into a better future? Would it be favorable to have more top-down control? Can corporate control fix the world? In fact, compan...
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FuturICT Blog: Can Corporate Control or the "China Model" Heal the World?
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Sunday, 21 June 2015. Can Corporate Control or the "China Model" Heal the World? And (2) giving more control to multi-national corporations, as they tend to be more efficient than government institutions. Has the French Revolution been a tragic historical accident that is now making our lives more difficult? Are democratic decision-making procedures outdated and blocking our way into a better future? Would it be favorable to have more top-down control? Can corporate control fix the world? In fact, compan...
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FuturICT Blog: October 2014
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Friday, 31 October 2014. QUALIFIED MONEY: A better financial system for the future. By Dirk Helbing [1]. For example, “Qualified Money” would introduce reputation-dependent conversion rates to reward investments into quality. In this post, I will discuss the roots of the EURO crisis and some ideas how to overcome it. Short history of money and future of Bitcoin. A new kind of money - How the idea was born. And what if this would co-determine the value of money? One of the problems of today's financial sy...
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FuturICT Blog: May 2014
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Tuesday, 20 May 2014. THE WORLD AFTER BIG DATA: What the digital revolution means for us. By Dirk Helbing (ETH Zurich). Big Data: a magic wand. But do we know how to use it? Let me start with Big Data. When the social messaging portal WhatsApp. What's the next big thing after Big Data? Massively Open On-line Courses –. And personalized education), the way we do research (Big Data analytics), the way we move (self-driving Google cars. Or transport goods (drones), the way we go shopping (take Amazon. The w...
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FuturICT Blog: September 2013
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Wednesday, 11 September 2013. A New Kind of Economy is Born. Social Decision-Makers Beat the "Homo Economicus". By Dirk Helbing (ETH Zurich). The financial, economic and public debt crisis has seriously damaged our trust in mainstream economic theory. Can it really offer an adequate description of economic reality? And they show that markets, as they are organized today, are undermining ethical behavior [3]. Is this really true? Outdated theory, outdated institutions. In fact, recent experimental results...
