‘Next time you go to the bathroom, there's a reasonable chance the person in the cubicle next to you is scrolling through Instagram’, reported HuffPost in 2017. Equally, Wired describe a very near future, in which ‘sensors might be embedded in your toilet bowl....
New data horizons Cyberspace, as a shared dimension but unequal community, is in a moment of unease and alienation over the ways and means of data creation, dissemination and preservation, including methods of storage on- and offline. Communication and circulation of...
Under the aegis of a feverish entrepreneurial spiritualism and redoubled post-crisis capitalism of the fourth industrial age, the radical transparency and openness once promised by blockchain is in retreat. We are witnessing blockchain-as-enclosure; enclosure through...
A critical turn is needed in discussions of blockchain — the tech that underpins the virtual currency bitcoin - especially with respect to it as a phenomenon of the so-called fourth industrial age.The fourth industrial age is the latest stage in the ongoing...