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Blog Entry Digital Native: People Like Us
by Nishant Shah published Dec 18, 2016 — filed under: , ,
How the algorithm decides what you see on your timeline. If you have been hanging out on social media, there is one thing you can’t have escaped — a filter bubble. Be it demonetisation and its discontents, the fake news stories that seem to have ruined the US election, or the eternal conflict about the nature of Indian politics, your timeline must have been filled largely by people who think like you.
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Blog Entry Digital Native: Playing God
by Nishant Shah published Sep 04, 2018 — filed under: ,
Google’s home assistant can make you feel deceptively God-like as it listens to every command of yours. It is a device that never sleeps, and always listens, waiting for a voice to utter “Ok Google” to jump into life.
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Blog Entry Digital native: Rebellion by Google Doc
by Nishant Shah published Nov 05, 2017 last modified Jan 09, 2018 04:19 PM — filed under:
The List is an example of the power of digital anonymity and solidarity. But we need to move beyond it.
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Blog Entry Digital native: Snap out of outrage mode
by Nishant Shah published May 05, 2017 — filed under: ,
Rage at the inequality of the digital world is good. But why stop at the Snapchat CEO?
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Blog Entry Digital Native: System Needs a Reboot
by Nishant Shah published Dec 31, 2018 last modified Dec 31, 2018 02:06 AM — filed under:
It’s time to replace the schizophrenic need for variety with ingenuity — the truthiness of the information.
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Blog Entry Digital native: The age of consent
by Nishant Shah published Dec 31, 2017 last modified Jan 10, 2018 02:17 AM — filed under:
Just like porn is not real life, all news is not real news. It’s time, therefore, to come of age in the 18th year of this century.
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Blog Entry Digital Native: The bigger picture
by Nishant Shah published Jul 01, 2018 last modified Aug 01, 2018 12:11 AM — filed under: , ,
For all our sleek machines, we are slaves to the much larger Internet of Things.
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Blog Entry Digital Native: The Dream of the Cyborg
by Nishant Shah published Jan 08, 2017 last modified Feb 02, 2017 02:56 PM — filed under: ,
We have arrived at hybrid realities, where the technological and the human cannot be separated. The digital future we had once imagined is already here.
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Blog Entry Digital Native: The e-wasteland of our times
by Nishant Shah published Apr 22, 2018 last modified May 06, 2018 03:21 AM — filed under:
How digitising isn’t necessarily a fast-track to a sustainable future.
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Blog Entry Digital Native: The Future is Now
by Nishant Shah published Oct 17, 2016 — filed under: , ,
The digital is not just an addition but the new norm in our lives, and it might not be all good. There used to be a popular joke among technology geeks when Bluetooth arrived on our mobile devices — everything becomes better with Bluetooth.
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