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Can the system be outsmarted? Jorge Porta turns apps’ power over daily life into fiction

From Clarín · () Spanish

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  • Jorge Porta makes his fiction debut with Cruce peligroso.
  • The novel imagines a network linking traffic lights, cameras, ambulances, apps and public services.
  • It explores what happens when people affected by platform power discover they can manipulate the systems themselves.

Can the system be outsmarted? Jorge Porta explores that question in Cruce peligroso, his fiction debut.

Porta, a journalist and manager of news and programming at Radio Mitre, imagines a network capable of connecting traffic lights, cameras, ambulances, applications and public services.

The novel focuses on the power held by platforms over everyday life. It asks what happens when the people subjected to that power discover that they can manipulate the platforms too.

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