Smart glasses with augmented reality displays and computer vision sound very useful, but the creep factor is doing them in.
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South African telecoms operators have been lobbying policymakers and regulators over the “Fair Share” concept.
Mark Zuckerberg sees future social feeds filled with AI content and AI friends. And fuelling this synthetic future will be AI ads.
The tech landscape is pockmarked with many missteps and failures, from IBM’s OS/2 to the recent CrowdStrike disaster.
Meta has launched facial recognition tools aimed at fighting the scourge of scams and account takeovers in South Africa.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg considered spinning off Instagram in 2018 over US antitrust worries.
Litigation was instrumental in damaging Big Tobacco’s grip on the market in the 1990s. A similar approach is probably needed to stigmatise social media.
Tech billionaires are so deep in their own reality distortion fields that their perception of the world can get dangerously warped.
Democratised technology doesn’t always guarantee democratic outcomes. The emerging fediverse faces similar potential pitfalls.
Wall Street is buying what CEO Mark Zuckerberg is selling. There are reasons for this optimism – and reasons to question it.