This year’s CES 2020 show included tech-based sexual products on a one-year trial basis, provided the products were deemed “innovative” by the CTA This was in response to what happened in early 2019, when Lora […]
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The Ascendance of Social Media
The evolution of social media, like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, from platforms facilitating networks among friends to powerful political tools has been a momentous development The political role of social media in American politics was […]
Can Europe Achieve Digital Sovereignty?
92% of the Western world’s data is stored in the United States. Six of the world’s largest ten tech firms are American—none are European As more and more governmental entities in Europe entrust public sector […]
Dominic Cumming’s Plan for New UK Research Agency
Dominic Cummings met academics at 10 Downing Street to discuss setting up a UK version of the US Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) that would tackle “really big societal challenges” Cummings has been keen on […]
Huawei Appeals to Japan
Huawei plans to spend close to US$10 billion on procurement in Japan this year – more than double the amount it spent two years ago – and even more in 2020 This should make Japan […]
The UK on Verge of a Major UBI Trial?
Over the last several months both Liverpool and Sheffield have been preparing themselves for a grand UBI experiment. But the whole project will require Labour forming the next government The pledge is there, on page […]
A New Story About Capitalism
Mariana Mazzucato wants liberals to talk less about the redistribution of wealth and more about its creation. Politicians around the world are listening Dr. Mazzucato, an economist based at University College London, is trying to […]
Taiwan Is Making Democracy Work Again
Social media has opened up vast social divisions and brought democracy to its knees. In Taiwan, the people are fighting back Audrey Tang began coding at the age of eight by typing on a keyboard […]
Big Tech’s Big Defector
Roger McNamee made a fortune as one of Silicon Valley’s earliest champions. Now he’s one of its most fervent critics If the founders of Big Tech were a family, McNamee might be its eccentric uncle. […]
#ACCELERATE MANIFESTO
Accelerationism pushes towards a future that is more modern, an alternative modernity that neoliberalism is inherently unable to generate At the beginning of the second decade of the Twenty-First Century, global civilization faces a new […]
Whose Data? Our Data!
The first episode of the ourVoices podcast discusses big tech and data ownership, and examine exciting initiatives from around the world that place data back into the hands of the collective – not the private […]
Industry Body Responds to Labour’s Broadband Pledge
The UK’s independent networks co-operative association (INCA) has expressed its concerns to Labour’s pledge to nationalise parts of BT, providing the entire nation with free broadband by 2030 INCA has expressed its concerns that the […]
Labour Pledges Free Broadband For All
Labour has promised to give every home and business in the UK free full-fibre broadband by 2030, if it wins the general election The party would nationalise part of BT to deliver the policy and […]
Frederick Douglass’s Vision for a Reborn America
In the immediate aftermath of the Civil War, Frederick Douglass dreamed of a pluralist utopia In the late 1860s, Frederick Douglass, the fugitive slave turned prose poet of American democracy, toured the country spreading his […]
Labour’s Secret WhatsApp Group
Jeremy Corbyn’s communications staff set up a private WhatsApp Group with journalists and columnists to coordinate election messaging and social media attack lines While organisational WhatsApp channels are not uncommon in politics for MPs and […]
Neo-Nazi Accelerationism
Accelerationism has its roots in academia. But experts believe it has played a significant role in the current wave of extremist violence There’s no meaningful use of the term “accelerationism” or attention paid to Nick […]