The new dotcom crash: collapsing ad markets threaten disaster for Big Tech
Tim Hwang, author of Subprime Attention Crisis, sees parallels between the 2008 housing crisis and today’s economy.
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If tech bros get their way, the future is going to be ugly
From weddings in the metaverse to dead-eyed celebrities discussing NFTs: the 2020s are showing us that new technology does not…
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David Chalmers: “I’d love to come back every 100 years to take a look”
The techno-philosopher on why life may be a simulation.
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Why have governments been so slow to remove illegal social media posts?
More than three years after a beheading video galvanised a campaign to better regulate social media, Denmark has planned new…
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How Google makes you know less but think you know more
Experiments have found that constant googling is leading people to mistake the internet’s knowledge as their own.
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How Apple became the world’s first $3trn company
The tech company’s market value has more than doubled since January 2020.
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W is for Whistleblowers: How we woke up to the real danger of Big Tech
This was the year the mask slipped, after damaging revelations from within the social media giants.
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The political risks of Big Data dominance
Big Data's hubristic claim that it understands humanity opens the door to dangerous manipulation.
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