Bill Gates: the Optimist’s Dilemma
The philanthropist has been fighting global disease for 25 years. He believes the world is at a dangerous tipping point.
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The disturbing rise of tech-bro pronatalism
A growing group of Silicon Valley figures are agitating for people to have more children – as a solution to…
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Labour’s Big Tech gamble
What will the government sacrifice in the pursuit of economic growth?
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Do not buy an AI smartphone
The new wave of smartphones represents a global social experiment into the future of AI and humanity.
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How Telegram fosters online extremism
The under-regulated platform lacks transparency. The Southport riots remind us why this matters.
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We must break up the tech platforms that threaten our democracy
We are prisoners of a global online panopticon that knows more about us than we do.
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When the AI bubble bursts
The boom in AI investment since ChatGPT’s launch has been accompanied by constant claims that the technology will transform our…
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The lonely land
Why are so many young people feeling so isolated? Is it because of smartphones, as the American social psychologist Jonathan…
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