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Big data and the Future of Democracy: The Matrix world behind the Brexit and the US Elections
BIG DATA AND THE FUTURE OF DEMOCRACY: The Matrix world behind the Brexit and the US Elections

Author(s): Hannes Grassegger, Mikael Krogerus
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Geopolitics
Published by: Bošnjačka zajednica kulture "Preporod"
Keywords: Politics;

Summary/Abstract: Aegean theater of the Antique Greece was the place of astonishing revelations and intellectual excellence – a remarkable density and proximity, not surpassed up to our age. All we know about science, philosophy, sports, arts, culture and entertainment, stars and earth has been postulated, explored and examined then and there. Simply, it was a time and place of triumph of human consciousness, pure reasoning and sparkling thought. However, neither Euclid, Anaximander, Heraclites, Hippocrates (both of Chios, and of Cos), Socrates, Archimedes, Ptolemy, Democritus, Plato, Pythagoras, Diogenes, Aristotle, Empedocles, Conon, Eratosthenes nor any of dozens of other brilliant ancient Greek minds did ever refer by a word, by a single sentence to something which was their everyday life, something they saw literally on every corner along their entire lives. It was an immoral, unjust, notoriously brutal and oppressive slavery system that powered the Antique state. (Slaves have not been even attributed as humans, but rather as the ‘phonic tools/tools able to speak’.) This myopia, this absence of critical reference on the obvious and omnipresent is a historic message – highly disturbing, self-telling and quite a warning.”– notes prof. Anis H. Bajrektarevic in his luminary book of 2013, ‘Is there life after Facebook? – Geopolitics of Technology’.

  • Issue Year: 2016
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 64-75
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: English