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Proposal: replace online advertising with microformats for ads

Here’s a tiny proposal, albeit VERY likely NOT original, to solve a big digital issue of our time.

The limits of "banning discrimination through Artificial Intelligence"

In April 2018, the “Finnish Non-Discrimination and Equality Tribunal” prohibited “discriminatory use” of artificial intelligence. I am not sure they did the right thing.

Experimentation in agriculture IS necessary. Just make it as diverse as possible

I recently observed that the only missing voices at a coming Summit on Agriculture seemed to be… farmers, and digital technologies that THEY could design and control. This is the answer I just received

Every year fewer and fewer words...

Every year fewer and fewer words, and the range of consciousness always a little smaller. So said Mark Zuckerberg, and so far almost nobody seems to have noticed his source.

What seems missing from that agriculture summit

I discovered only this morning that next May there will be a very interesting meeting about “The Digital Revolution - Farming 4.0”. Its announcement, however, makes me wonder how complete that meeting will be.