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The end of the pay-per-download era
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Reflecting on responsibility in AI with Daniel Dennett
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Chinese philosopher Yuk Hui: "Technology has multiple futures"
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Don Ihde and generational responses to digital technology
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Fleeing from the public squares of the internet
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The codification of public policy
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Is EdTech addressing the demands of 21st century education?
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The carbon capture era
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The emergence of the decentralized stack
Is the future open-source?
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Whistleblower platforms in the wake of Wikileaks’ demise
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The higher purpose of motor sports
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The social promise of augmented reality
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To measure someone is to know someone
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Is TikTok a vector for Chinese ideals?
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Sustainable minerals for sustainable technology
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Illegal streaming holds the media industry in check
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Can algorithms be neutral?
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The Africa Stack
The African continent might be leapfrogging into the digital economy
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Where architecture and IT meet
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Scaling bitcoin with the lightning network
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21st century Luddites target self-driving cars
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The VAR system and the datafication of everyday life
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Facebook’s strategy for a decentralized future
Will Facebook orchestrate its own disruption?
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Sports wearables: When the amateur goes pro
The widespread use of performance-tracking technologies has changed the practice of sports
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Netflix’s Bandersnatch: the beginning of embedded content interfaces
Netflix's interactive film 'Bandersnatch' could set the trend for embedded content interfaces in films and shows.
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Farming in the Anthropocene by improving photosynthesis
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Managing your digital identity
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Volatility in the Tech Stack
A closer look at the fundamental trajectories and interdependent nature of new technologies
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Retroscope 2018: Technological cycle
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The AI chips race (part 2)
Chips are at the heart of the generative AI Stack
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The AI chips race (part 1)
How AI chips will determine future geopolitical events
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The internet is in need of a transition
What the internet can learn from ongoing transitions in energy, mobility and food
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Is Open Source AI a sham?
Why leading AI companies are currently engaging in both 'openwashing' and 'closedwashing' practices
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The artisan versus the engineer: masters of the universe
What kind of skills should we (not) cultivate for generative AI?
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We are the products of technological mediation
What the metaphor of the 'medium' can teach us about AI
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The day the artificial became intelligent (is yet to come)
When we started to call intelligence a machine and the machine intelligent
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Knit’s Island and the future of the metaverse
An immersive and fascinating documentary about life in a virtual world
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The robots among us
About today’s master-slave dynamics with humanoids and chatbots
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The age of the machine: emancipation or alienation of the human?
Understanding the role of machines in society
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