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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
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
Little Man: Why Merck Mercuriadis’ Blackstone Partnership Spells Doom for Human Creativity
LONDON, ENGLAND - Intellectual property (IP), as a legal concept, has its origins in the pharmaceutical industry and in the creative arts industry. Led by Pfizer and other powerful corporations like IBM, Hollywood studios and the top record labels
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)
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
Behold, A Dead Horse – The Dark Nexus Between Art, Fashion and Mixed Reality
AMSTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS - Terms like volumetric capture, photogrammetry and pluriform pixel-based garments are only a few examples of the industry jargon that is bandied about inside 'digital fashion houses' like The Fabricant
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.
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
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.
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"