Join 📚 Izzy's Highlights
A batch of the best highlights from what Izzy's read, .
An outreach campaign was launched to clarify that the microphones, for example, were designed to measure street noise, not record conversations. The cameras were for counting pedestrian traffic and would not be equipped with facial recognition technology; images would be processed within each unit and then deleted, so that only raw, aggregate data would be transmitted to project servers.
Perhaps most importantly, data was to be held by the Argonne National Laboratory, not a corporation, with an independent panel of privacy experts overseeing how it was managed.
Smart Cities or Surveillance Cities?
planning.org
According to the British Nobel laureate Max Perutz, vaccinations might have saved more lives in the twentieth century even than antibiotics.
The violence we do to others by thinking we know what is best for them is dramatically illustrated in a story from India. It seems a passerby witnessed a monkey in a tree with a fish. The monkey was saying to the fish, “But I saved you from drowning!” The monkey, thinking it had saved the fish, had taken the fish to a place that couldn’t meet any of the fish’s needs for survival or growth. We can’t save people, or fix them. All we can do is model, and that points the finger back at us.
The Yamas & Niyamas
Deborah Adele
...catch up on these, and many more highlights
Readwise