Re: Becoming Infrastructure, Grabbing Power

2020-05-18 Thread Felix Stalder
[And here, same story in the UK. Not surprisingly the UK and the US are the most enthusiastic in transferring money and data to the private sector, but I guess continental Europe is not far behind. Thanks to Pit for the work-around.] On 11.05.20 20:54, Felix Stalder wrote: > > I'm sure many of

Becoming Infrastructure, Grabbing Power

2020-05-11 Thread Felix Stalder
I'm sure many of you have noted the co-incidence of Google's closing down its smart city project in Toronto [1] and Andrew Cumo announcing a major partnership with Google to reinvent the state of New York post-Covid [2]. Naomi Klein wrote a piece for the Intercept [3] in which she basically inter