A new kind of interface has surfaced over the past five years – artificial intelligence (AI) based ‘personal assistants’. Apple Siri started the ball rolling, swiftly followed by Google Now, Microsoft Cortana, Amazon Alexa, and half a dozen others. But […]
Surveillance Capitalism is a striking turn of phrase. It captures in two words the centralised and systematic monitoring of your every action (digital and analogue now the two are increasingly difficult to tease apart), the algorithmic translation of your past […]
Sir Tim Berners-Lee founded the World Wide Web Foundation in 2009 with the mission to establish the open Web as a basic right and a public good. The Foundation is intent on “building a future in which the Web empowers […]