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Category: <span>Technology</span>

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Facebook May Be Democracy’s Best Hope

Facebook May Be Democracy’s Best Hope

By Chris Ladd October 5, 2020 October 5, 2020

From polarization to spam, the problems of social media are the problems of democracy.

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Amazon’s New Homeless Shelter

Amazon’s New Homeless Shelter

By Chris Ladd December 1, 2019 December 1, 2019

A corporate homeless shelter is not a feel-good moment. It’s a warning.

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The Long View

The Long View

By Chris Ladd June 2, 2019 June 3, 2019

Look closely at our dilemma, and you see not decline, but leadership. We are being buffeted by the first waves of a storm spreading around the world. We’re not worst, but merely first.

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Voting Machines, Fake News, and the Future of Democracy

By Chris Ladd August 5, 2018 August 5, 2018

The biggest threat to the integrity of our elections isn’t the machines, but the users.

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What Will Replace Democracy?

By Chris Ladd July 28, 2018 August 5, 2018

What’s Next after democracy may already be ascendant.

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Democracy in the Age of the Algorithm

By Chris Ladd June 5, 2018 June 5, 2018

Breaking up the Russian/Republican project might end that particular campaign, but it won’t disarm this cheap, readily available weapon, just waiting to be used again.

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Boredom, a Eulogy

By Chris Ladd May 23, 2018 May 23, 2018

Boredom has disappeared from our lives and with it, the ingenuity it spawned.

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SCOTTeVEST, Fox News, and a Dunning-Kruger nightmare

By Chris Ladd January 26, 2018 January 26, 2018

A shrinking world and the exponential explosion of computing power has sparked a biological arms race with no certain outcome, unleashing a Dunning-Kruger nightmare.

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Challenge and opportunity in AI

By Chris Ladd May 7, 2017 May 7, 2017

At a fundamental level our challenge is not Vladimir Putin or Communism or Capitalism or terrorism or crime. Survival for us depends on winning the same race won by our ancestors, a race to adapt our bodies, our cultures and our technologies to emerging demands before those demands overtake us.

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Science and politics in a democracy

By Chris Ladd April 26, 2017 April 27, 2017

Our political process is premised on the notion that everyone is equal and therefore everyone’s perception of reality deserves a roughly equal weight. Apply this logic to questions of scientific expertise and the results are either comedy and tragedy, sometimes both.

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