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The New Face of Colonialism | Part II – Building the Green Pipelines
GLASGOW, SCOTLAND - In a panel session called 'So, You Want a Green Job?' at the recently-concluded COP26 Climate Conference, the Parliamentary Undersecretary of State for Apprenticeships and Skills for Her Majesty's government
November 16, 2021
The New Face of Colonialism | Part I – Trafficking in Child Data
AUSTIN, TEXAS - Less than a mile southeast of where the Colorado River begins its erratic journey to Lake Travis on the western edge of the city of Austin, the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation stands on its own lot
November 10, 2021
A Permanent State of Exception: The NIST’s Critical Role in Smart City Development
GAITHERSBURG, MARYLAND - Located on the outskirts of the greater Washington D.C. metropolitan area in a city of barely seventy thousand, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
October 20, 2021
To Believe or Not to Believe: The Origins of Open Source Intelligence and the Stories We Tell
LONDON, UK - Open source intelligence or OSINT was the brainchild of Arnold Toynbee, founder of Britain's Royal Institute of International Affairs (RIIA), also known as Chatham House and the prototypical think tank
October 12, 2021
Dawn of the Embodied Autonomous Agent Society
STANFORD, CALIFORNIA - Early Thursday morning, a century-long study panel called the "One Hundred Year Study on Artificial Intelligence (AI100)" hosted by Stanford University published its second report on the state of AI.
September 16, 2021
Robots in the Magic Kingdom: The 4th Industrial Revolution is Almost Over and Nobody Noticed
BEDFORD, MASSACHUSETTS - Dog shit has been a persistent problem for the popular robot vacuum cleaner, Roomba, until just a few days ago when the domestic droid-maker announced a new software update
September 14, 2021
Lord of the Secular Mega Trends
NEW YORK, NY - One of the advantages of holding vast amounts of capital is the ability to disregard the cyclical 'nature' of the economy and having the luxury to sit out periods of expansion and contraction with a bird's-eye view of your investments.
September 9, 2021
Digital Candy: Gamifying Nature and the Politics of Profit
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIFORNIA - Many parents dismiss video games as pastimes their children will grow out of once they have to deal with the "real world"
September 2, 2021
Blockchain’s Taliban Problem and the Cyber Mujahideen
KABUL, AFGHANISTAN - Taliban insurgents always seem to stick in the craw of Western capital's best-laid plans. Since bursting on the scene in the wake of American and Soviet proxy wars in Afghanistan of the 1970s
August 31, 2021
Bankers, Slaves & Lunatics: The Original Military Industrial Complex and the Roots of Philanthro-capitalism
BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND - Long before Eisenhower's famous farewell speech, the British Empire's own military industrial complex had grown to become a central feature of the English economy.
August 29, 2021