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 naturally architects look upwards where there is plenty of space blow 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 on its head. it's an attention grabber the white tree of pay he surprises passers by and delights its residents. this is the balcony where we have breakfast and here we have an opportunity and this is the balcony where we just relax. and not be as spunky 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 you're 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 when it took less heat. 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 that this bridge this past. 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 even if they want to go here and sco we have to construct $150.00 new homes per year in a city that's completely built up to the locals and so we have to go upwards. if we change when. the biggest challenge is doing it in a way that the residents will accept. as you know because with the book was not with you. that's a special challenge because france has had difficult experiences in and with its. dismissed as bedroom communities monocultures social flashpoints it's a failed model an example of what not to do. was fun and earn 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. to learn more from this to measure what all that money doesn't grow on trees and certainly not on the

white tree in mom pay us 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 to 6 weeks without success a swedish research team wasn't able to talk to the company either their book the spotify teardown investigates the workings of the company one of its main topics is spotify as data broker one that has little to do with music. d.s.l. with its 14000000 users is one of the smallest of the big streaming fish and one of the few prepared to talk to us. we asked what they do with information gleaned from users. in. the subscription model where the user pays 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 greece new book the costs of connection this data vacation of society is described

as part of a new type of colonialism. it's amazing that there is a parallel between the terms of every app now requires of us to basically take all our day to day to where he even didn't know we were generating and use it for purposes. and a time 500 years ago when a major world power the spanish king was trying to grab a new type of resource which would go in latin america. as the new. streaming service is trying to make us customers feel like king while at the same time extracting the very last of our resources ourselves. we are king and colonised at the same time and of course money is being made then as now by someone else. all

right is 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 play is bigger when we 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 he 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. other parallels as well including the an extreme concentration of wealth and power companies that have access to big data also enjoys 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 is this problem of data protection for us now to you know yeah data ownership and access some privacy they're all hot topics at the moment and many countries have been looking at the laws surrounding surrounding

dodger protection we here in europe enjoy the general data protection regulation and we do have more protections than they do in than they 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 i mean it seems that the big conglomerates a 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 the society and they're not questioning it especially young people who grew up in the internet generation. you know 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 city berlin 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 rave is over is the title of

a book by photographer martin abler who's been documenting the techno scene here in berlin since it all took off after the fold of the berlin wall in the 1990 s. . martina chronicled 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 into every day and something changed. after the fall of the eastern berlin 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 of trees or opened in a one time department store for it quickly became the flagship for the new party town and a launching pad for d.j.'s like paul van dyke. went in with his camera. to take up a math monitor the 1st time i was in the trees or i had

a black leather jacket on and my hair dyed black and all the other guys there had white gloves and bright orange safety vests on and i thought wow this is a completely different world what's going on here get in here up 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 called temporary spaces these were the settings for a wild and lawless subculture of clubs bars and galleries. even the nails the hard way as he calls it he captures the brief moment before the party stuff it's. not known while what you generally associate with the partying or you might call it club culture other 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 act. surely looked like they stopped in at. 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 saying street so much about the city's expressive power has changed this to looking back on us the photographer now see that extatic face during the ninety's and early 2000. the fun of the title that that was a totally fabulous time of the me scene 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 on board. and having lived here for 30 years all i can to show

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