Technology

Question 1

what is the age of science referring to?

Answer 1

human beings become more capable of radically transforming, controlling, innovating their world

Question 2

what are the ethics and risks?

Answer 2

humanoid robots, human interaction lacks, imitation games, crime, war

Question 3

why AI produces inequality in the labour market?

Answer 3

 Knowledge is cheap to duplicate and redistribute
 Anyone’s job can be replaced by AI
 => high economic gains distributed over very small workforce

Question 4

what are the social consequences of AI?

Answer 4

no jobs,meaning you are meaningless, and worries about industrialisation

Question 5

how is polarisation present on social media?

Answer 5

o Filter bubbles and echo chambers
o Exposing users to a small part of info, the one that already fits their view
o People are exposed to a wide variety of view that would reduce polarization, but effects appear to be mild

Question 6

what is the business model?

Answer 6

a new unit of analysis
a system-level, holistic approach to explain how forms do business
explain how value is created
address 2 phenomenons: electronic business and the use of technology

Question 7

What does the St Gallen’s Magic Triangle show?

Answer 7

shows the difference between HOW, WHY, WHAT, having in the middle WHO => an attempt to model the market

Question 8

what is surveillance capitalism?

Answer 8

economic system centered around the capture and co-modification of personal data for the purpose of profit-making

Question 9

what does Rosa say about self-improvement?

Answer 9

leads to alienation, the more indifferent people are to the social identity- the better they adapt to requirements of flexibility- all based on disembedded rationality

Question 10

what does Focault say about neoliberalism?

Answer 10

taking something and forming it into a relationship of the individual to himself, to those around