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Your Life As A Digital Ghost

Cars That Think

Wong describes the new digital afterlife industry in a chapter of her new book from MIT Press, We the Data: Human Rights in the Digital Age. So your book takes on a much broader topic, the datafication of our daily lives and the human rights implications of that phenomenon. Wendy, thanks so much for joining me on Fixing the Future.

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Another Exclusive Greenius Video: 350.org’s Bill McKibben on Biking and the SBBC

Creative Greenius

Bill McKibben signs his new book "Eaarth" at the L.A. Times Book Festival (photo by Debra Bushweit Galliani). org at the same table author, Bill McKibben , was signing copies of his new book “Eaarth.&# What I dug most was the way Bill personally connected with each person who had a book for him to sign.

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Bob Eckstein Has the Perfect Museum for You

Baua Electric

A born New Yorker who lives not far from the Met Cloisters in Upper Manhattan, Mr. Eckstein started with a hit list of 150 museums that was eventually whittled to the 75 that appear in the book. This conversation has been edited for length and clarity. The stories were very important to the whole book because they make it come alive.

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Denied! Why the bonkers BYD Yangwang U9 electric hypercar has been locked out of Australia

EV Central

READ MORE: Ferrari SF90 XX Stradale and Spider PHEVs READ MORE: Lamborghini LB744 supercar gets three-motor PHEV … with a V12 READ MORE: Australian order books open for $449,500 McLaren Artura plug-in hybrid 2023 BYD Yangwang U9 supercar. seconds But with Chines pricing set at the equivalent of $240,000, demand will obviously be limited.

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The Creepy New Digital Afterlife Industry

Cars That Think

This article is adapted from the author’s new book , We, the Data: Human Rights in the Digital Age (MIT Press, 2023). You decide, after some months of interacting with the 4evru’s version of your father, that while you are somewhat glad to learn who your father truly was, you’re mourning the loss of the person you thought you knew.

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Andrew Leland on Assistive Tech for the Blind

Cars That Think

So, who better to have written the newly released book The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight , which presents a history of blindness that touches on events and advances in social, political, artistic, and technological realms? Everything that a sighted person can see visually, you can hear aurally with a screen reader.

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The Portrait Artist

Cars That Think

Perry prefers to meet in person in order to develop a human connection. That rapport lets her subjects open up, giving readers a glimpse of their personalities, motivations, and attitudes. I generally leave feeling I actually connected with the person, that it was more than just a Q&A.” Perry Residence: Palo Alto, Calif.