Are tech companies censoring evidence of war crimes?
TikTok and other tech companies have strict regulations around the content that can be posted on their platform. They use human moderators and robust AI to…
Global healthcare consultant Vijay Dhawangale pushes for preventive healthcare
Vijay Dhawangale, an international healthcare consultant envisions a robust healthcare ecosystem powered by governments and implemented by professional…
The future of tech
Recent discoveries and ingenuity has allowed us to create robotics in the form of Artificial Intelligence, as well as in the physical form of robots. Artificial…
Ray Kurzweil: Future of technology would mainly consist of genetics, nanotechnology and robotics
Theories of technology often attempt to predict the future of technology based on the high technology and science of the time. As with all predictions of the…
Thomas P. Hughes: Assumption that tech can be easily controlled has to be thoroughly questioned
Thomas P. Hughes, American historian of technology, stated that because technology has been considered as a key way to solve problems, we need to be aware of…
What exactly is the ‘appropriate technology movement’?
Appropriate technology is a movement (and its manifestations) encompassing technological choice and application that is small-scale, affordable by locals,…
Nikolas Kompridis: Technology may change our biological nature permanently
Nikolas Kompridis has also written about the dangers of new technology, such as genetic engineering, nanotechnology, synthetic biology, and robotics. He warns…
Technology’s impact on practices of citizenship and democratic culture
Darin Barney has written about technology's impact on practices of citizenship and democratic culture, suggesting that technology can be construed as:
(1) an…
What is ‘techno optimism’?
Optimistic assumptions are made by proponents of ideologies such as transhumanism and singularitarianism, which view technological development as generally…
What is technicism?
Generally, technicism is the belief in the utility of technology for improving human societies.
Taken to an extreme, technicism "reflects a fundamental…