The Technological Zombie

The Technological Zombie

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Planning your life or, better, your afterlife

By Donatella Della Ratta, April 20, 2021

The difference between technology and slavery is that slaves are fully aware that they are not free, Nassim Nicholas Taleb once wrote. A Lebanese American mathematical statistician and essayist concerned with problems of randomness, probability and uncertainty, Taleb has a good point. We are not fully aware of what tech is doing to our life, let [...]

THE TECHNOLOGICAL ZOMBIE

By Donatella Della Ratta, March 16, 2021

Technology can turn us into zombies, as Concordia University student Aaron Ansuini bitterly discovered. While searching for the email address for his professor Francois-Marc Gagnon, he instead found his obituary. The long-time lecturer in Art History was teaching a full online class in Spring 2021 even though he died in 2019. A university spokesperson defended [...]

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