transhumanism – Amazon Surprise https://surprise.blackblogs.org Thu, 24 Sep 2020 09:36:01 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.7.1 https://surprise.blackblogs.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/1422/2020/07/az_frown_klein-150x150.png transhumanism – Amazon Surprise https://surprise.blackblogs.org 32 32 5. Correct! We know how maximum exploitation works https://surprise.blackblogs.org/en/2020/07/09/5-correct-we-know-how-maximum-exploitation-works/ Thu, 09 Jul 2020 10:13:08 +0000 http://surprise.blackblogs.org/?p=166 We know how maximum exploitation works. In our Amazon warehouses, a system of surveillance, control and harassment ensures psychological and physical attacks and maximum efficiency, as well as competition between workers. A wristband that controls every movement, scoring points and a 2-minute toilet break per day are constant companions for the workers. In this way we guarantee motivated and conscientious working structures.
At “Amazon Mechanical Turk”, work contracts are globally advertised and assigned as precariously as possible. The workers are not permanently employed, without social security and in direct global competition for the lowest wages. This is just one of the ways we and other platforms are leveraging workers’ rights to provide you with the best service and us with the highest possible profit. Nevertheless, there are always annoying strikes and labor disputes, which we try to avert with all possible means. Unfortunately we are still dependent on erroneous and thinking people, but we are working on a constant automation to eliminate these errors as well. (Find more info here: https://makeamazonpay.org/en/
]]> 6. Correct! The focus of these smart buildings is surveillance and optimizing people to their work places https://surprise.blackblogs.org/en/2020/07/08/6-correct-thefocus-of-these-smart-buildings-is-surveillance-and-optimizing-people-to-their-work-places/ Wed, 08 Jul 2020 11:17:48 +0000 http://surprise.blackblogs.org/?p=181 Edge Technologies and Smart City
Our partner and landlord Edge-Technologies consider themselves “a developer of healthy intelligent buildings”. With their supposedly sustainable and climate-neutral construction projects, they combine data collection of the Internet of Things (IoT) and data processing of Big Data in their Smart City architecture. The construction of the building requires huge amounts of cement, rare earths and so on. But machine learning (AI) and cloud computing are supposed to improve the energy footprint and utilization of a building and the productivity of its users. The aim is, for example, to optimize the (human) workplace in such a way that people are less likely to take sick leave.
Together with Google and Microsoft, we are the driving force behind the smart homes and offices. Smart City advocates are striving for a universal collaboration of technology, science, real estate developers and other companies transforming cities through the introduction of IoT and smart technologies. The inhabitants of these cities have little choice but to adopt these technologies. Urban planners and government authorities will be enabled to be more aggressive with transformation programs. It remains open what these transformation processes include, how they affect people and who profits from them. But don’t worry, we have good ideas!
In general, a smart environment can collect an incredible amount of very personal information about us. If everything around us records even the smallest detail and this data is evaluated on a large scale, data protection is hardly possible. Human behavior can thus be analyzed and manipulated on a large scale. This is the ultimate low price for endless comfort and total security!
Edge likes to refer to the planned Smart City Toronto “which was built from the Internet”. Here a smart city district was planned (by Google’s Sidewalk Labs) on the drawing board. The advertising brochures speak of heated sidewalks, traffic lights that adapt to the traffic, better waste sorting, etc. Critics of this project in Toronto consider the collection and use of data to be an advanced form of surveillance capitalism, where the main purpose is to manipulate people in the interests of business. Due to massive criticism, Google abandoned the project in Toronto for the time being. Fortunately, Edge-Technologies will take up the ideas and continue them!
 
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