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We shed data all the time, like dead skin cells. With every click, every Facebook friendship, every shopping trip, every interaction with a government agency, we leave a mote.
Code of conduct: The relentless march of the algorithm by Robin Barton, The Independent, 15 Jan 2012.
I wrote my Masters’ thesis on dust, on what it meant exactly that we are constantly sloughing off hair and skin - bodily fragments - which transform into waste strewn thinly and evenly across our living spaces. Distributed presence, former presence - a body was here.
Now I ask, what does it meant to be doing that with data?
Posted on January 28, 2012 with 19 notes ()
Source: independent.co.uk
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