Bookmark: "The Looming Digital Meltdown - The New York Times"

2018-01-08

Bookmarked:

The Looming Digital Meltdown - The New York Times mobile.nytimes.com

We have built the digital world too rapidly. It was constructed layer upon layer, and many of the early layers were never meant to guard so many valuable things: our personal correspondence, our finances, the very infrastructure of our lives.

Zeynep Tufekci pinpoints the vulnerabilities of computers due to the technological debt they carry along; why aren’t computer bugs scrutinized with the same rigor as for example plane crashes?

I'm Sebastian, Sociologist and Interaction Designer. This journal is mostly about bringing together social science and design for inclusive, privacy-focused, and sustainable "human-first" digital strategies. I also tend to a "digital garden" with carefully curated resources.

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