Category: Emerging Technologies Observatory
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The first sign is often banal: a meeting request with “AI strategy” in the title. By then, something has already happened. Someone in the organization has been using generative tools quietly for months. A manager has praised an AI-generated synthesis because it sounded clean enough to be true. A client has asked why the company…
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Originally published as an essay Infrastructures of Violence, Security and Solidarity: Challenges for Art, Technology and Society, a critical text by Bartosz Frąckowiak published on 20 December 2024 in _BW Mag (Planetary Futures series). The text situates contemporary infrastructures of violence and security within global political-technological systems, engages with theoretical work on logistics and power…
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The language we employ to describe new technologies tends to emphasize their lightness, swiftness, and ephemeral and non-material nature. We talk about the cloud and imagine scattered molecules of data, without weight or physical mass, ungraspable, floating nimbly in the air. Meanwhile the Internet, the cloud, or what allows us to experience technologies as “light,”…