The Depressing New Corporate Metaverse
A Review of Luis Bravo Martins’ and Samantha G. Wolfe’s Metaversed: See Beyond the Hype (December 2022) The term metaverse was coined by Neal Stephenson in his 1992 sci-fi novel…
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Surveillance Capitalism and Its Challenges to Libertarianism
In the nineteenth century, as British settlers poured into colonial Delhi, many complained about the venomous cobras that roamed the streets. In response, the British government began a programme of…
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Where’s My Jetpack! How Future-Oriented Thinking Could Revolutionise Tourism
In Where’s My Jetpack?, Daniel H. Wilson takes a satirical look at the futuristic technologies that science fiction has optimistically imagined, but that have thus far not been invented, such…
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Health and Justice: Neoliberalism, Apps and the Limits of Individual Choice
In our technologically saturated society, health is defined as a state of mental, physical and social well-being, constituted by the absence of disease, a definition filtered quite narrowly through the…
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Andrew Yang and Zoltan Istvan Subvert the Political Binary
The 2020 race for president, so far, has been almost entirely predictable. Joe Biden continues to lead the Democrats in many polls, thanks to his name recognition (thanks to Obama)…
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What Happens When Meaning Goes Away: A Review of Yuval Noah Harari’s “Homo Deus”
Humanity has made tremendous strides in reining in plague, famine and war in recent decades. Take just one example: poverty. Since 1990, on average, with each passing day, there are…
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Technology and Taxation: How New Technology is Disrupting the Nation State
Hello World! And the horse was out the stable… oh, how beautiful and powerful a horse she was. Old Nations, New Technologies Undoubtedly, developments in technology have changed the world…
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Humans Should Not Fear the Rise of the Machines
A review of Deep Thinking: Where Machine Intelligence Ends and Human Creativity Begins, by Garry Kasparov. Public Affairs, 2018. Netflix series Black Mirror’s latest story arc “Bandersnatch” is an interactive psychological thriller,…
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Life on Mars: The Ethical Implications of Colonizing the Red Planet
It’s a Godawful Small Affair Human expansion into space is at the periphery of our current, scientific knowledge. There is a long and earnest history of proposals for such a…
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