After a few days in NYC back in China. One of the reoccurring conversations in the US that I coming back to is near-time facial …
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For the lady wishing to know more about this club host – expect to QR barcodes to be supplanted by facial recognition – still through …
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The slides from my The Economist: Ideas Economy talk, and the text below. The title of my talk “no photos”. Today I’d like to share something that …
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The security protocols for working in Afghanistan dictate that the driver doesn’t hold up the name of the person they are picking up, but …
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Been thinking a lot about my relationship with strangers recently – triggered by a number of unrelated threads: the death of a pedestrian on Sunset …
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For any given culture what are the drivers and mechanisms for obscuring / censoring portions of content? How will the recording and pixellation of pornography …
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How do street survey’s evolve when the surveyor has the ability to check the validity of answers to (control) questions in real time? Which unique identifier …
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