Tag: technology
Opinion: The Rapid Development of Covid Vaccines Shows How Healthcare Will Completely Change. But Who Will Benefit?
by Aaron Bastani
Report: The Lawyers Leading the UK’s Fight Against Unjust Algorithms
by Josh Gabert-Doyon
Downstream: Can Lab-Grown Meat Save the World? Aaron Bastani Meets Michael Selden
The Bastani Factor: Control, Power and Resistance in the 21st Century. Interview With Cory Doctorow
What is the relationship between technology, society and politics? Is the former merely a tool for social control, or can it also open up new vistas of possibility and freedom? How can one become the other, and what does resistance look like in a world where culture, and digital culture, are increasingly constitutive of one […]
Opinion: The TikTok Saga Shows How the Internet and Technology Are Political
by Aaron Bastani
The TikTok and Huawei stories distill how China’s rise is not solely economic and political, argues Aaron Bastani. For the first time in 250 years, an Asian power is vying for long-term technological leadership with the West.
Opinion: How Big Tech Helped Cities Become an Incubator for the Greatest Currency of Our Age: Loneliness
by Sophie McKay
Technology and cities are making us lonelier than ever, writes journalist Sophie McKay, giving opportunistic new businesses the chance to sell us innovative, expensive and ultimately empty solutions to a perfectly normal emotion.