Karl A L Smith

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TED profile Update

People often meet me through my work in technology, but don’t realise is that creativity has been constant throughout my entire life. I’ve just been through a really interesting process of committing to updating my TED profile and I learned…

How All me is Building a Privacy-by-Default Future

In an era dominated by algorithmic manipulation, data harvesting and massive data breaches, social media can feel less like a community and more like a surveillance trap. Mainstream networks operate on an “opt-out” system: they take your data by default,…

Propaganda Bubbles and Parallel Realities

I look for information underwritten by named and verified data sources. And this is becoming harder and harder. LLM’s and Social Media will support your Opinion It is fascinating how the world has changed but its not accidental. Literally no…

LinkedIn bullies and the loss of the LinkedIn professional network

It is without doubt that Social Media empowers people to feel they can act with impunity. However this has never really been true, there is no impunity on Social Media as accounts can be traced quite easily.

#IoT #socialmedia #influencer original content creator up 85% in one month

I have been engaged in the conversation around Ubiquity now described as the IoT for almost 30 years. In the last 4 years I have been refining my social media interactions and have automated most of my publications. The proof…