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Blueprint for a better media

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11 strategies for a better media. Vanessa Baird writes.

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Are these new privacy laws the best solution? Mike Morel investigates.

humanitarian drones

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Aid-by-drone, what’s not to like? New tech in the sector brings many problems, Nick Dowson explains.

Three displaced Yemeni girls stand by the shredded remains of their tents in Abs settlement, which is regularly damaged by passing sandstorms.

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Hazel Healy investigates the challenges facing 21st century disaster response.

'NEW FRIGIDAIRE MASTER for families that want maximum storage space...’.From the Ladies’ Home Journal. 1948. Pic: Wyeth, N.C.

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A dystopian short story by Pat Cadigan on the future internet of things.

Technology is affecting the way people take part in protest.

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Is digital technology leading us astray, asks Rev Billy.

Democracy movement NYC Rolling Rebellion advocates for net neutrality in front of the Time Warner offices in New York City, US.

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Net neutrality repeal pulls the plug on our civic life, says Cory Doctorow.

Robots Japan: Aiko Chihira, a humanoid robot that can blink and speak developed by Toshiba Corp, staffs the information desk of a high-end department store in Tokyo.

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How Japanese society and robots match up, by Christopher Simons.

Robotization dangers: what's the impact of robots on humans?

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The vision of the future we are fed will leave many of us reeling, writes Dinyar Godrej. For what?

Killer robots

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Noel Sharkey’s stark warning against the latest arms race.

Automation and basic income.

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If automation decimates jobs, we need better solutions than these, argues Nick Dowson.

Industrial robots China

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Industrial robots are being put to work on a huge scale. Jenny Chan looks at the case of Foxconn.

Audrey Watters AI

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Think of computer code as new rules governing society – who gets to enforce it? asks Audrey Watters.

Edtech: will Google take over the classroom?

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Tamasin Cave reports on the edtech players pushing for radical changes in schools.

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What rights do citizens have, not just to public and private spaces, but to their digital equivalents? Mark Graham...

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A photographic account of changes over the years in: housing; water; education; health; sanitation; food and farming;...

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