The dominant process underlying the transformation of life in all societies, since at least the mid-nineteenth century, is the conversion of things and activities into commodities, or commodification.

"Commodity" is a dreaded term in technology. It implies something so simplistic, so standardized, and so cheap, you don’t even need to compare suppliers based on the product itself. The word brings to ...

The adoption of OpenTelemetry is going to allow developers to do more building of interesting analysis features rather than repeating commodified work, according to one of the early members of the ...

We've lived in an age of big data for years now, but it's still growing at a rapid rate. The global volume of data created, consumed and stored is expected to increase from 149 zettabytes in 2024 to ...

IN his seminal book, The Great Transformation (1944), Karl Polanyi makes a case for how modern societies are characterised by the creation and use of three fictitious commodities — money, human labour ...

The US medical community's view of the human body shifted in the twentieth century, when it began to be seen as a source of valuable tissues and fluids. In her thought-provoking Banking on the Body, ...

Research by Alex J. Wood, Mark Graham and others shows how gig economy platforms commodify labour in Southeast Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. Photo by Samuel Odey from Pexels. Growing connectivity in ...