À l’université, on assiste à une révolution, c’est-à-dire un renversement des fins mêmes de l’éducation. Comme dans le roman d’anticipation Nineteen Eighty-Four (Orwell (1990 [1948])), cette révolution se fait la façon plus insidieuse et dès lors efficace : par langage. L’université révolutionnée parle écrit aujourd’hui jargon performance définie selon les critères lois l’économie marché. Ce es...

Technology archivist Helen Willa Samu-els published an article in American Archivist entitled " Who Controls the Past. " Invoking George Orwell's lines from 1984: " who controls the past, controls the future, " Samuels noted that in " a modern, complex, information-rich society… only a small portion of the vast documentation can be kept… archivists are challenged to select a lasting record, but...

Automatic lemmatisation is a core application for many language processing tasks. In inflectionally rich languages, such as Slovene, assigning the correct lemma to each word in a running text is not trivial: nouns and adjectives, for instance, inflect for number and case, with a complex configuration of endings and stem modifications. The problem is especially difficult for unknown words, as wo...

Over the past two centuries, surveillance technology has advanced in three major spurts. In the first instance the surveillance instrument was a specially designed building, Bentham’s Panopticon; in the second, a tightly controlled television network, Orwell’s Big Brother; today, an electronic human-tracking service. Functionally, each technology provided total surveillance within the confines ...

Cuando se conectan las ideas de metaverso Mark Zuckerberg, con la cuarta revolución industrial Klaus Schwab, Postcapitalismo Paul Mason, Capitalismo vigilancia Shoshana Zuboff, desarrollo sostenible Jeffrey Sachs, y quiere ver lo anterior desde imaginación escritores como George Orwell 1984 Un Mundo Feliz Aldous Huxley, entonces sí entenderemos qué nos está hablando el artículo The Economist so...