Tag: technology
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The text is one of four speeches by Bartosz Frąckowiak introducing the subsequent discussion blocks during Signal Forum in Prague in 2024. Travel has often been a narrative of conquest: of land, space, oceans, and now, increasingly, of time and data. Discovery in order to exploit and extract. When we think of travel, we often…
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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,”…