more and more people all over the world are moving into the cities and in turn cities are getting cramped and there's less room for new housing so not 3 architects look upwards where there is plenty of space lab or a blow all the white tree is an extraordinary tower block in the southern french city of mobile yeah which aims to turn the bad reputation of living in a horror rise on its head. it's an attention grabber the white tree of surprises passers by and delights its residents. this is the balcony where we have breakfast and here we have an appetite and this is the balcony where we just relax yes and mostly a spondee is having the last of her lamps hung she moved in a few weeks ago having sold her house in a suburb. there. in

a house here on the ground but here on the 14th floor we're in the sky we've got all new furniture to fit in with the architecture of the building. i left it to do you know. there are public spaces from the ground floor to the roof of the house is meant to be accessible through the white tree is the answer to the question of how the tower of the future will look with large terraces allow people contact with the outdoors and also bring life inside that didn't exist in the classic kind of tower past what it took us yet even the smallest space is at a premium especially in cities so architects are looking to the sky. a lot of people want to live in the city so we have to build upwards it will be the case that we will be using more and more spaces communally and sharing them this place this path. here houses are placed on top of a building and the whole thing has been built over

a city highway and such creative solutions are not limited to the outskirts of paris but when is that want to go here and scope we have to construct $150.00 new homes per year in a city that's completely built up to them also so we have to go upwards. if we change to. the biggest challenge is doing it in a way that the residents will accept. because you know because with the workers not with you. that's a special challenge because france has had difficult experiences in the end with its. dismissed as bedroom communities monocultures social flashpoints it's a failed model an example of what not to do. was fun and cern a tower is not a problem rather it's a question of how it's integrated into the surrounding area the state needs to help and ensure that everyone has access to this kind of housing. just to measure what

all of that money doesn't grow on trees and certainly not on the white tree. with prices per square meter at $5000.00 euros it's something only a select few can afford. indeed streaming is and i quote the activity of listening to or watching sound or video directly from the internet so innocent enough does not however every time you use a streaming device it's building up a picture of your case a new using that data to dictate what will be directed at you in the future are streaming services beginning to control our lives i'll be discussing this with my colleague melissa holroyd after this. streaming services are with us constantly from sports to the office even to our relationships. services like you chub all spotify are available for free. we play with our

privacy to find out what happens with our data we tried to contact spotify for 6 weeks without success a swedish research team wasn't able to talk to the company either their book the spotify teardown investigates the you know workings of the company one of its main topics is spotify and start a broker one that has little to do with music. d.s.l. with its 14000000 users is one of the smaller streaming fish and one of the few prepared to talk to us. we ask what they do with information gleaned from users. in the. subscription model where the user pays we use geo data to determine trends for example what are the trend differences from south to north from west to east and of course across borders. in british sociologist nichol new book the costs of

connection vacation of society is described as part of a new time of colonialism. it's amazing that there is a parallel between the terms of every act now requires of us to basically take all our day to day to even didn't know we were generating and use it for purposes. and time 500 years ago when a major power of the spanish king was trying to grab a new type of resource rich with gold and latin america. as the new. streaming service is trying to make us customers feel like king but at the same time extracting the very last of our resources ourselves. we are king and colonized at the same time and of course money is being made then as now by someone else. hall

reuters with me now data is the new gold pretty scary stuff to me sure does and the stakes probably couldn't be higher nor the players bigger only think of some of the biggest tech companies in the world some of the wealthiest companies in the world we think google microsoft amazon and all of these people all of these work with algorithms they all were. big data according to nicole tree who who co-wrote the costs of connection he says that this may well just be the beginning of big data collection that we're seeing he's a sociologist who's been getting a lot of attention recently he focuses on big data and its effects on society but you also calls it a kind of colonialism i mean that's a bit much. colonialism but not in terms of the physical violence that took place he makes a very good argument about the colonialism of empire building and extraction that

they are the same as what's going on today so he says that every time we click on terms and conditions when we want to watch a film when we want to listen to some music we're agreeing to something that we don't really understand. as other parallels as well including the an extreme concentration of wealth and power companies that have access to big data also enjoy a huge amount of power and they also use this civilizing rhetoric we're always hearing about the benefits of connection because of connection i really ask the simple question what's going on with this new land grab and what does it mean in terms of society but but we this is you know we all hear about data protection i mean in place i mean there's there's plenty of data protection for us now on all your data ownership and access and privacy that all hot topics at the moment and many countries have been looking at the laws surrounding surrounding data

protection we here in europe enjoy the general data protection regulation and we do have more protections than they do in the net than they do in other parts of the world africa has less protections and it's there that is a real hot spot for tech companies at the moment and it seems that the big conglomerates doing whatever they want really one of the big problems is that people think it's normal don't they people think that this is the. cost of services this is the cost of being part of a society and they're not questioning it especially young people who grew up in the internet generation. you know of this is this is all very normal for them yeah melissa thank you very much i have no doubt we will be revisiting this subject a lot in the future. this is generally considered the world capital of techno the music itself maybe has its roots in detroit in the us but we have the best techno clubs in the world by far right is the target of

a book by photographer mark enabler who's been documenting the techno scene here in berlin since it all took off after the fold of the bergen wall in the $990.00 s. . martine able to chronicle the spaces of berlin's wild new subculture in the 1990 s. . when it felt as if you were stumbling through a land of adventure and you can see every day something changed. after the fall of the eastern for lynn was full of empty lots and buildings abandoned industrial spaces were taken over by ravers out to dance to the new sound of freedom techno. in 1901 the club trees were opened in a one time department store it quickly became the flagship for the new party town and a launching pad for deejays like paul van dyke. went in with his camera. to take them to math most of the 1st time i was in the trees or i had

a black leather jacket on my head dyed black an order of the guys there had white gloves and bright orange vests on and i thought wow this is a completely different world what's going on he'll get in here. even then moved to berlin in the 1990 s. and dove right into the techno scene for about 10 years he focused on the spaces where the new art in music movements were happening. the resulting photo series is . temporary spaces these were the settings for a wild and lawless some culture of clubs bars and galleries. even the nails the hard way as he calls it he captures the brief moment before the party stuff comes. what you generally associate with partying or you might call it club culture or the people or what they do the dancing on the artificial fog and such but i was

interested in the spaces it was all happening in. what the housing for this party or i should say this club thing actually looked like. stuff in that. this former underground club in a squat called imo is among the temporary spaces a villa has immortalized and kind of walking along here now when looking at the photos you can hardly believe the same street so much about the city's expressive power has changed this. looking back on us the photographer and now see that extatic face during the ninety's and early 2000. the fun with the title that that was a totally fabulous time for me seen from today it was a period of my life that was really good even if i feel very little connection to it now. the euphoria and the ecstasy of the beginning is over but in berlin the party goes ever onward. and having lived here for 30 years i can assure

you it does still go on more on all these subjects and lots of other stories from the wealth of ops and culture on our website that steve comstock sculpture or facebook d.w. culture that's all for this edition thanks for watching and do join us again at the same time tomorrow in chicago.

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