Scripturient: The End of Forgetting

The latest installment of my “Scripturient” column for Information Professional magazine features the New School’s Kate Eichhorn, author of The End of Forgetting.

Together, we discussed: Who gets to tell their own story in the age of social media? What are the consequences of such stories being shared? 

How will digital media transform the ways we remember and are remembered, now and in times to come?

Will old deeds, old relationships, and our own former selves become inescapable thanks to new technologies and the capitalist frameworks in which they are deployed?

Read more in “Owning your own story” (PDF download).

“An app is not going to solve our democracy; it’s something we have to solve ourselves.”

In the new issue of the journal Surveillance & Society, Oxford’s Carissa Véliz, sci-fi writer and aid worker Malka Older, and Capgemini Invent’s Annina Lux join me to talk about how future scenarios can inform discussion, debate, and decision-making about the relationship between artificial intelligence and surveillance.

Read “The Art of Strategic Conversation: Surveillance, AI, and the IMAJINE Scenarios” here.