Richard Grusin on Sun, 22 Mar 2020 18:27:23 +0100 (CET)


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Re: <nettime> Should use mobile phone data to monitor public health


Yes, as a friend said to me yesterday, COVID-19 is a shot across the bow of the anthropocene.

Also, as to the ultra-rich: let’s start by taking half of their wealth and go from there.

Richard


> On Mar 22, 2020, at 1:07 AM, Sean Cubitt <sean.cubitt@unimelb.edu.au> wrote:
> 
> hi all
> 
> sorry for my poor joke about a cull of the ultra-rich: perhaps it's wrong to invite the 8 men who Oxfam declared three years back owned as much as the the poorer half of the world's population to join hospital porters in the world's most understaffed hospitals - for the good of their souls?
> 


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