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China is an innovation superpower. This is why
Last year President Xi Jinping outlined his vision to make China the global leader in political, economic, military and environmental issues over the next three decades. Read full Article
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Life in 2030: these are the 4 things experts can’t predict
Alvin Toffler predicted a future in his 1970 bestseller Future Shock that looks much like today’s reality. Read full Article
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New Podcast: riveting audio conversation with Futurists Calum Chace and Gerd Leonhard: AI, the Singularity, the Future of Humans and Machines
Calum Chace and me don’t agree on many issues – I’m a humanist and Calum is a science fiction writer and AI advocate. Having said that I really love talking to him, debating these replay mind-boggling issues with him. Listen to this podcast or download it for later. Read full Article
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Empathy and the future of policy making
Contributed by Kit Collingwood-Richardson, Deputy Director Universal Credit, Department for Work & Pensions (DWP). Co-founder, One Team Government movement. The way humans think, behave and connect to each other is increasingly underpinned and driven by technology. Read full Article
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How to be happy: Aristotle’s 11 guidelines for a good life
While most of us ask “What should I do?” when we think about ethics, many philosophers have approached it by asking, “What kind of person should I be?” These thinkers often turn to virtue ethics for answers. Read full Article
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Artificial Intelligence
Artificial intelligence (AI) has become an area of strategic importance and a key driver of economic development. It can bring solutions to many societal challenges from treating diseases to minimising the environmental impact of farming. Read full Article
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ICRAC Open Letter Opposes Google’s Involvement With Military
From improving medicine to better search engines to assistants that help ease busy schedules, artificial intelligence is already proving a boon to society. But just as it can be designed to help, it can be designed to harm and even to kill. Read full Article
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‘One Has This Feeling of Having Contributed to Something That’s Gone Very Wrong’
Over the last few months, Select All has interviewed more than a dozen prominent technology figures about what has gone wrong with the contemporary internet for a project called “The Internet Apologizes.” We’re now publishing lengthier transcripts of each individual interview. Read full Article
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Why the Future Belongs to Polymaths
Some of history’s greatest contributions have come from polymaths. Aristotle practically invented half a dozen fields of study across philosophy. Galileo was as much a physicist as he was an engineer when he helped kick-start… Read full Article
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The Neighbourhood Where Google Plans to Kill the Private Car
The DNA for suburbia was created by the Brooklyn real estate developer William Levitt. In the late 1940s and early 1950s, he built two communities named Levittown: one in Long Island, New York, and the other in Pennsylvania. Read full Article
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These 8 books are required reading for anyone who wants to change the world with tech
“Changing the world,” the rallying cry of the technology industry, sounds like a concept bursting with optimism. But in reality, it’s complicated. Take Facebook. Mark Zuckerberg’s creation, built under the banner of “move fast and break things,” certainly changed the world. Read full Article
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No death and an enhanced life: Is the future transhuman?
The aims of the transhumanist movement are summed up by Mark O’Connell in his book To Be a Machine, which last week won the Wellcome Book prize. Read full Article
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Tech has no moral code. It is everyone’s job now to fight for one
From racist ads to Cambridge Analytica, technology’s ethical deficit needs disrupting fast – and we have the power to do it It has been a tough two years for the technology industry. The 2016 US election was a turning point for what was formerly the face of upbeat, self-actualising capitalism. Read full Article
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CMO interview: How technology, digital have completely changed the 21st century marketer
The CMO role has expanded to encompass a broader set of requirements, particularly around digital marketing, social media and martech, as campaigns and CX shift to being more personalised and measurable. Read full Article
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Why marketers must shift the conversation from data privacy to ethical data use
On Jan. 28, much of the marketing community observed Data Privacy Day, an annual, international effort to spotlight the importance of respecting privacy, safeguarding data and enabling trust. While the day came and went, our responsibility continues. Read full Article
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Washington state sues Facebook, Google over election ad disclosure
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – The state of Washington said on Monday it had sued Facebook Inc (FB.O) and Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) Google, accusing the technology companies of violating state campaign finance law by failing to maintain public information about who buys election ads. Read full Article
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Kill the tech bro, save the world: how CEOs became Hollywood’s new supervillains
Hollywood has a history of drawing on collective fears. The dawn of the atomic age saw a boom in world-ending disasters, James Bond battled Russians all throughout the cold war, and the post-9/11 era saw a grimly predictable rise in Arab and Muslim bad-guys. Read full Article
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Europe, not the U.S., is now the most powerful regulator of Silicon Valley
Europe implemented a sweeping overhaul of digital-privacy laws on Friday that has reshaped how technology companies handle customer data, creating a de-facto global standard that gives Americans new protections and the nation’s technology companies new headaches. Read full Article
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Free Cash to Fight Income Inequality? California City Is First in U.S. to Try
STOCKTON, Calif. — This town in California’s Central Valley has long functioned as a display case for wrenching troubles afflicting American life: The housing bust that turned Stockton into an epicenter of a national foreclosure disaster and plunged the city into bankruptcy. Read full Article
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