Technology
Looking for traffic lights in a CAPTCHA
Anna Pacheco
We are all desperately trying to make sense of things, the question is how to embrace derangement and to avoid paralysis.
Planet
Technology
The Costs of Digital Utopia
Evgeny Morozov
What if the costs of sticking to the “there is no alternative” agenda of techno-capitalism are considerably higher than we have assumed?
Technology
Under the Cloud
Alec MacGillis
The story of how Amazon developed its digital platform in the cloud and its impact on different regions.
Technology
Kyle Chayka: “The platform connects us but also homogenizes our tastes”
Àlex Hinojo
We talk to the journalist about minimalism and how this trend affects us when it comes to relating to the world that surrounds us.
Technology
Confusing The Machine: Art, Masks and Facial Recognition
Ferran Esteve
Masks have been used by artists and activists as a tool for offering resistance against facial recognition systems.
Commons
Technology
Rethinking AI: Distributed Cognition and Expanded Corporeality
Toni Navarro | Alejandra López Gabrielidis
A defence of AI as a commons and of the need to collectively intervene in its development.
Technology
Can Algorithms Be Fairer Than People?
Karma Peiró | Ricardo Baeza-Yates
What degree of trust should we place in machines and how much consideration should we give to professional expertise?
Technology
The Place of People in the Digital Carnival
Enric Luján
From the depersonalised and anonymous Internet to the culture of exposure and virality of today’s social media.
Technology
Why We Keep Talking About NFTs
Pau Waelder
What are the causes of the NFT boom in the contemporary art market and what does it bode for the future of digital art?
Technology
Against Complexity
Joana Moll
Technological solutions often side-step the complexity of the systemic problems they face.
Technology
The update that never ends
Ivan Pintor Iranzo
We take a look at TikTok, an infinite scroll platform where consumption and production are the same thing.
Technology
Remember the Human
Albert Lloreta
Reddit, the interface between digital niches and the mainstream, is one of the battle grounds for debates on freedom of expression and toxicity in the era of the great algorithm.