ESCAPE KEY Today, if you have money, you can buy what you like. Assuming you use a credit card your balance is checked and the money withdrawn. By 2029, the terminal checks a second balance […]
A push to regulate algorithms and online speech shows Ireland’s growing willingness to trade digital freedom for centralized control of information. CINDY HARPER Ireland’s Joint Committee on Artificial Intelligence has issued a report urging new […]
IAIN DAVIS Some independent media voices and online commentators have suggested that stressing the importance of mass non compliance to oppose and, more importantly, actively resist the rollout of digital identity in the UK is […]
G. CALDER Two major studies published by Science and Nature found a shocking portion of voters were persuaded by AI chatbots, shifting opinions by an enormous 15 percentage points in some elections. Over 15 AI models were tested on 80,000 participants in the […]
CP Donald Trump has dramatically put a flagship UK–US technology deal on ice, in a stinging rebuke to Labour and Keir Starmer’s bungled attempts to cosy up to Washington. The much-vaunted “tech prosperity deal” was […]
CCTV and facial recognition technology is unethical at its core, and a planned expansion is bound to be deployed cheaply and disastrously. PAUL BIRCH On December 4th, 2025, the United Kingdom’s Labour government announced plans […]
The UK flirts with an extreme future where every device is surveilled. CINDY HARPER Lawmakers in the United Kingdom are proposing amendments to the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill that would require nearly all smartphones […]
The electronic cottage: how technology causes family breakdown NIALL MCCRAE Alvin Toffler, whose prophetic book Future Shock (1970) primed sociologists and politicians for radical change to society as a result of technological advances, was in […]
G. CALDER Children as young as three are scrolling social media feeds built for adults. New analysis has emerged suggesting almost a million UK children aged 3-5 years old are using platforms like Instagram, Facebook, […]
ESCAPE KEY In 2018, Forbes reported ‘It’s Official, The Transhuman Era Has Begun‘1. Their reasons for making this call are secondary. Instead, let’s take a look at the structural reasons why Forbes are, in a […]
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