The Chilling Future of Artificial Intelligence in the Workplace
RJ Quinn
Increasing use of artificial intelligence in the workplace is forcing people to police themselves more than ever, argues RJ Quinn.
Tag: technology
Long Read: Fully Automated Green Communism
Aaron Bastani
How can we secure luxury for all without careering even faster towards climate catastrophe? Aaron Bastani discusses.
Novara FM: Peter Frase: Life After Capitalism
On #NovaraFM, James Butler speaks to Peter Frase of Jacobin, author of Four Futures, about life after capitalism and the politics of the future.
Left, Left, Forward: Thoughts On The Future Of Gaming And Progressive Politics
Marijam Didzgalvyte, Jish Newham and Simon Saunders discuss how video games are going to evolve in the future, the effects of the big world events and what space is there for radical politics to progress in gaming.
Facebook and Freedom: How Silicon Valley’s Ideology Masks Emerging Power
Karishma Mehrotra
Since its inception many have seen the internet as a space of freedom, without authority or hierarchy. But, Internet.org, Facebook's latest endeavour, suggests this isn't the case.
Long Read: The World After 2016: 6 New Rules in Politics
Aaron Bastani
Brexit. Trump. The ubiquity of Facebook. The fracturing of historically-dominant political parties. The political certainties of yesterday are out of the window, and there's more up for grabs than we know.
Climate scientists use new web technology to fight climate denial
Steve Rushton
The cynical approach to climate change adopted by many media outlets is a constant source of frustration for anyone who acknowledges the urgency of global warming. Now scientists are able to hold them to account.
Long Read: Tesla, iPad Socialism and the Return of the Future
Aaron Bastani
Sunday Long Read: Over the last year much has been made of the role of technology in the realisation of a left future, but if 'iPad socialism' is to become more than a slogan, it will be public - not private - funding that makes it happen.
Communicating Capitalism: 7 Basics for the Uninitiated
Ben Hollis
Housing, inequality, technology, the environment - all these things tie into a system called capitalism. Ever grappled with what people really mean by this? Here's a bumper guide to just a few of the basics.
4 Reasons Why Technological Unemployment Might Really Be Different This Time
Nick Srnicek
What does automation mean for the future of employment? Some fear it will cast us to the scrapheap while the automated economy grinds on; others argue technological developments have always created new jobs. But could it ever mean something different entirely?
‘Print this Map. Get off the Internet. Take to the Streets’: 5 of the Left’s Best Mapping Moments
Sam Hind
From the Paris Commune to the Situationists, mapping and radical politics have a rich shared history. In this article Sam Hind traces some of the key cartographic moments from the civil rights movement to the student movement.
#FuckUber: 8 Reasons Why Uber is Bad for All of Us
Sam Hind
Since its inception, Silicon Valley 'ride sharing' start-up Uber has drawn criticism and anger from taxi drivers wherever it has been launched. While it is undoubtedly undermining cabbies, this is just the tip of the iceberg.
7 Reasons We Shouldn’t Let Ello Become the Next Facebook
Johannes Wilm
Ditched Facebook and moved to the greener pastures of Ello in search of privacy, exclusivity and loads of little round pictures? Don't be so eager! While your grandparents might not be on Ello taking selfies (yet), the company is almost bound to renege on its 'civil liberties' ego-trip and has got some serious venture capitalists queuing around the block.
Novara FM: Utopia and Ideology: Bacon’s ‘New Atlantis’ to Bitcoin
On this week's show James Butler and Aaron Bastani discuss the relationship between utopia, politics and technology asking 'what is the utopia of capital'?
Novara FM: Networks and Undead Institutions – The Crisis of the State-Form?
On this week's show James Butler is joined by Eleanor Saitta as they discuss networks, technology, undead institutions, the state-form and the 'coming crisis'.