MIR Meets: David Sax
Host Andrew Xu sits down with David Sax, a Canadian freelance journalist and the author of The Future Is Analog:…
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PART II: Neo-Luddites and the Era of AI
Artificial Intelligence is gradually shifting the job landscape, leaving some worse off than others. In this AI…
Sustainable Agriculture: A Question of Land Use
As the world population continues to grow and resource scarcity becomes increasingly pronounced, there has never…
Opinion | A Love Letter to the Internet
Wordle is specifically designed to use only three to five minutes of your day, offering no additional levels or…
Dystopia Is Here: Why You Should Fear the Metaverse
The threat of the Metaverse extends beyond those currently posed by Facebook: it is a threat of complete control of…
Opinion | A Loss of the Arts Is a Loss for All
As long as politics, the economy, and culture exist, society must have individuals who can properly communicate…
Congo, Coltan, Conflict: How the digital boom fueled conflict in Congo
In November 2020, the country received global attention as #CongoIsBleeding aimed to spread awareness of both the…
The Many Faces of Surveillance Technology: Why the Facial Recognition Conversation…
To have ‘nothing to hide’ is not a sufficient justification to allow the infringement of our individual freedoms.…
The Zoom Phenomenon
If you're reading this, chances are you've used Zoom, the video calling platform, at some point in the last few…
What the Rise of Deepfakes Means for the Future of Internet Policies
"Potentially dangerous technologies like deepfakes continue to stay a step ahead of the intelligence employed to…