What Orwell Saw — And What He Missed — About Today’s World
Orwell could not see that with the dawn of the Information Age several decades later, efficiency would become far less economically significant than innovation and adaptiveness. Apple, Microsoft,...
View ArticleFacebook Marks The End Of Social Media’s Wild West
Increasingly, Facebook is finding itself in an impossible position as it tries to remain, in spirit at least, a content-agnostic platform that allows everyone to have a voice. Sometimes the company...
View ArticleThe Deep State Is Very Real
Of course there’s a Deep State. Why wouldn’t there be? Even a cursory understanding of human nature tells us that power corrupts, as Lord Acton put it; that, when power is concentrated and entrenched,...
View ArticleZuckerberg Offers the Bare Minimum On The Cambridge Analytica Mess
Two years and four months after Facebook found out that Cambridge Analytica might have illicitly pulled user data from its platform, and five days after the latest round of stories about the political...
View ArticleGoogle’s Domination Over The Web
Yes, we all know that Google is dominant in the realm of search. But at the same time, the internet is also a huge place – and building a decent searching algorithm can’t be that hard, right? The chart...
View ArticleHow Artificial Intelligence Will Reshape The Global Order
By allowing governments to monitor, understand, and control their citizens far more closely than ever before, AI will offer authoritarian countries a plausible alternative to liberal democracy, the...
View ArticleBig Tech’s Harvest Of Sorrow?
At the same time that science and technology have vastly improved human lives, they have also given certain visionaries the means to transform entire societies from above. Ominously, what was true of...
View ArticleTwelve Million Phones, One Dataset, Zero Privacy
Every minute of every day, everywhere on the planet, dozens of companies — largely unregulated, little scrutinised — are logging the movements of tens of millions of people with mobile phones and...
View ArticleAdapting To A Fast-Forward World
The world is going through a period of accelerating change, as four secular developments illustrate. Firms and governments must make timely adjustments, not only to their business models and...
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How the Coronavirus Pandemic Will Permanently Expand Government Powers
Photo by Paweł Czerwiński on Unsplash We are all statists now. Since the coronavirus pandemic struck and the global economy unraveled, we have looked to governments to mobilise medical resources,...
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