Tag: Science and Technology

Articles tagged with science-and-technology

Karen Levy

The New Workplace Surveillance

Both regulators and employers have embraced new technologies for on-the-job monitoring, turning a blind eye to unjust working conditions.

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Toussaint Nothias

How to Fight Digital Colonialism

As Big Tech’s data and profit extraction extends the world over, activists in the Global South are pointing the way to a more just digital future.

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Public Trust Is a Political Problem—Not Just an Epistemic One

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Sophia Goodfriend

The Banality of Surveillance

Two new books examine the ordinary roots of our extraordinary regime of high-tech monitoring.

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Lenore Palladino

Why Biden’s New Industrial Policy Won’t Work Without Reforms

The passage of the administration’s Inflation Reduction Act should be celebrated, but without explicit corporate guardrails it’s doomed.

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Philip Kitcher

Windows on Reality

Science is always undertaken from a definite point of view, a new book concedes. But it enlarges our knowledge of the world through the interplay of different perspectives.

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Catarina Dutilh Novaes Silvia Ivani

The Inflated Promise of Science Education

Building public trust requires far more than the conveyance of facts and instruction in scientific thinking.

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John Crowley

Science Fiction as Poetry

In her new book, Danish poet Olga Ravn writes with open love, pity, and compassion for her strange yet familiar creations.

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Sheryl Sandberg standing in front a big board showing Facebook's network of social connections
Matthew Crain

How Capitalism—Not a Few Bad Actors—Destroyed the Internet

Twenty-five years of neoliberal political economy are to blame for today’s regime of surveillance advertising, and only public policy can undo it.

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Marissa Grunes

Endless Ice

Inspired by the rediscovery of Shackleton’s HMS Endurance, we revisit two centuries of lessons in leadership from getting trapped in Antarctica’s Weddell Sea.

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