"Science cannot, in and of itself, give an account of human dignity, because dignity is based on human freedom. [...] To the extent that there is a science of human behavior, there is an implicit denial of the freedom of human behavior." The Rabbi Sacks Legacy in Morality (2020)

That's why we need regulations and moral leadership on issues bigger than money... Shareholders should never be in a position to decide the future of mankind based on their own rational, albeit selfish, interests. ft.com/content/0affeb…

"I believe that overemphasis on the purely intellectual attitude, often directed solely to the practical and factual, in our education, has led directly to the impairment of ethical values... Without 'ethical culture' there is no salvation for humanity". Albert #Einstein (1951).

Augmented Reality will rely on tracking users' eye movements in the built environment. My latest article in The Conversation (Canada) asks whether eye tracking should be regulated. #augmentedreality #smartbuildings #eyetracking #ai theconversation.com/companies-are-… via The Conversation Canada

How to protect our free will when our interactions in the built environment are increasingly mediated by technology? That's the question I ask in my latest opinion piece in The Business Times (Singapore). businesstimes.com.sg/opinion/smart-…

My latest article in ESG Insights (Brazil) esginsights.com.br/tecnologia-de-…

Thanks to Bertram Steininger and his colleagues at KTH Royal Institute of Technology Royal Institute of Technology (Stockholm, Sweden) for inviting me today to present my paper "On the economic nature of behavioural control in smart real estate". #PropTech #DigitalTransformation #realestate

Thanks to @ogdabaum at the University of Padua Università di Padova for referencing my recent op ed on eye tracking. Happy to contribute to a debate about the use of this technology in the built environment! ilbolive.unipd.it/it/news/proble…

My latest paper 'On the economic nature of behavioural control in smart real estate' is now available open access as part of the forthcoming special issue of the Journal of General Management: Real estate management and strategies: the next decade. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/03…

Smart buildings: What happens to our free will when tech makes choices for us? theconversation.com/smart-building… via La Conversation Canada #smartcities

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Can smart buildings offer sustainability without sacrificing privacy? That's the topic of this week's SPARK with Nora Young Spark CBC Radio on CBC/ Radio Canada. My contribution is available here 👇 Web story: cbc.ca/radio/spark/ca… #smarthome #smartbuildings #DigitalTransformation

My latest article entitled "Augmented reality will soon be real estate's new reality" available in The Property Chronicle The Property Chronicle propertychronicle.com/augmented-real… #AugmentedReality #smarthome #smartbuildings #DigitalTransformation

The controversy over Mites sensors at Carnegie Mellon U would be funny if it did not indicate what a battle we have ahead of us and the momentous ethical challenges that will soon face the real estate industry. #smartbuildings #smartcities technologyreview.com/2023/04/03/107…

Pour une IA responsable au service de l’intérêt public ledevoir.com/opinion/idees/…

My latest tribune in France's newspaper of record Le Monde (Sept 1st, 2023- in French): Nouvelles technologies : « Le danger est de ne plus pouvoir différencier innovation et progrès » lemonde.fr/idees/article/… via Le Monde #DigitalEconomy #smartbuildings

Happy to speak on a panel about IA ethics and queer ethics at queertechhq annual conference in Montreal, Quebec on November 1st. #QTQ2023

My latest article Umwelt as the foundation of an ethics of smart environments is available open access in Springer Nature's Humanities and Social Sciences Communications Humanities & Social Sciences Communications👇 nature.com/articles/s4159…

My article "When Googlenomics comes to property" is now available in The Property Chronicle Quarterly Magazine Winter 2024 (Issue 28). heyzine.com/flip-book/79f7… #google #meta #commercialrealestate #mixedreality #VR #augmentedreality #AR #futureofrealestate #realestateproptech

My article on technocriticism and AI at the occasion of The Nobel Prize in physics awarded to Professor Geoffrey Hinton (University of Toronto) has just been published in Le Monde . lemonde.fr/idees/article/… #AI #NobelPrize