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Diversity · Digitalisation

My days as a cyborg: how I (temporarily) became the Kenyan elections

Between March 4 and 9 I lived in a vacuum. My sole companions were my laptop and my smartphone; together we merged into one grand news-consuming machine. Kenya was at the centre of my universe, the Kenyan elections my sole concern.

Marlous van den Akker • 14-04-2013

Diversity · Digitalisation

Locating Futures: what do we do when the grass is greener on the other side?

What is actually going on when we say that the future is happening here or there or somewhere else? Zane Kripe describes ethnographic encounters in Southeast Asia where people discuss where the future of technology and business is unfolding.

Zane Kripe • 14-04-2013

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My days as a cyborg: how I (temporarily) became the Kenyan elections

Locating Futures: what do we do when the grass is greener on the other side?