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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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Disinformation and the false believe we are autonomous in our search for knowledge
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The 'Brussels effect' on digital legislation
Europe is reinventing its digital Stack by taking the lead in legislation implementation
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Biden: neither friend nor foe to big tech
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Are we sharing enough data?
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The sharing economy is dead, long live the rental economy
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The geopolitics of rare earth metals
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Who do we trust in the Stack war?
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The new power of technical standards
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Blurring boundaries with mixed reality toys
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The resistance to the hegemony of the App Store
As emerging tech companies become more influential their relationships with big tech are increasingly strained
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