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Now, “the market” is a name for a simplistic algorithm to create profit. The last 40 years demonstrate that the consequences of using it as the exclusive method for making decisions include gross inequality among humans and the wrecking of the health of the biosphere.
Paying Ourselves to Decarbonize | NOEMA
Kim Stanley Robinson
About 95 percent of all the fossils we possess are of animals that once lived under water, mostly in shallow seas.
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Bill Bryson
Last year, Helsinki and Amsterdam were the first municipalities to launch artificial intelligence (AI) registers detailing the AI systems in use, including information on datasets, data processing and whether the tools have human oversight. Partly inspired by this, a similar national system will soon be piloted in the UK.
Amsterdam Introduces Mandatory Register for Sensors - Cities Today
cities-today.com
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