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Your Life As A Digital Ghost

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Wong describes the new digital afterlife industry in a chapter of her new book from MIT Press, We the Data: Human Rights in the Digital Age. So your book takes on a much broader topic, the datafication of our daily lives and the human rights implications of that phenomenon. Wong: Thanks for having me. Are they people?

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The Creepy New Digital Afterlife Industry

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This article is adapted from the author’s new book , We, the Data: Human Rights in the Digital Age (MIT Press, 2023). Microsoft reportedly decided against turning this idea into a product, but the company didn’t stop because of legal or rights-based reasons. The familiar walls of your bedroom briefly flicker in front of you.

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How the IBM PC Won, Then Lost, the Personal Computer Market

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But it took more than a year and scores of meetings for IBM's contract and legal teams to authorize the terms. As Gerstner noted in his 2002 book , “What my colleagues seemed unwilling or unable to accept was that the war was already over and was a resounding defeat—90 percent market share for Windows to OS/2's 5 percent or 6 percent."

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Why AI Should Move Slow and Fix Things

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Joy Buolamwini ‘s AI research was attracting attention years before she received her PhD from the MIT Media Lab in 2022. In her new book, Unmasking AI : My Mission to Protect What is Human in a World of Machines , Buolamwini describes her own awakenings to the clear and present dangers of today’s AI. million views to date.

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This Harvard Law Professor is an Expert on Digital Technology

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Zittrain conducts research on what’s happening across the sweep of digital technology and writes about his findings in blogs, magazines, and books. Providing free access to books and legal decisions Much of Zittrain’s work looks at ways to make information more widely available. His legal work includes working on Eldred v.

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