ofthewedge

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environment

  • Six Virtues of the Data Act, or, How I learned to stop worrying and love the Data Act

    Yet another proposal for an EU digital ‘act’ has just landed and, having worked on it for a year, I cannot be expected to be impartial. So before the world’s brains fully digest its contents, here are seven reasons to believe the Data Act is a Good Thing. It empowers consumers – The Data Act… Read more

  • Secrets and Fictions (II)

    Rarely you read something that alters how you look at the world around you. Yuval Harari’s Sapiens: A Brief History of Humanity was one such book for me. It is not a masterpiece. It relies on the familiar large-fonted, sweeping sensationalism which is now the stock in trade of paper publishing, and a lot of his… Read more