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Technologies on the basis

David Hunter (Birminghma): How to Object to New Technologies on the Basis of Justice, the Impact of Uncertainty and Time. Fernando Flores Morador (Lund): From Husserl to Ihde and Beyond: Some Evolutionary Lines in Contemporary Philosophy of Technology. How Google and Microsoft taught search to "understand" the Web: Inside the architecture of Google's Knowledge Graph and Microsoft's Satori. A review of Interop: The Promise and Perils of Highly Interconnected Systems by John Palfrey and Urs Gasser. An article on Jacques Ellul, the Unabomber’s favorite philosopher. Google was one of the pioneers in Big Data and it is developed into an industry worth billions of dollars — its uses also raise ethical concerns (and more). George Dvorsky on 10 futuristic technologies that will never exist. On this five-year anniversary of the iPhone's launch, let's take a look back at how the iPhone has evolved. A review of The Virtual Self: How Our Digital Lives Are Altering the World Around Us by Nora Young. The deep infiltration of digital information into our lives has created a fervor around the supposed corresponding loss of logged-off real life.