How Data Helped Big Tech Monopolize Modernity
While the concentration of these platforms may be convenient for consumers, they are fatal for the once innovative…
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MIR Meets: Dr. Ingo Sasgen
Mathieu Lavault sits down with Dr. Ingo Sasgen, a geophysicist from the Alfred Wegener Institute in…
Online Platforms and the First Amendment Problem
Although online platforms have existed for decades, their potentially counterproductive influence on electoral…
Gene-editing and International Law: A Bioethical Debate
There exists extensive debate on the ethics of making changes to human DNA. Today, these conversations remain…
Unfolding Michael Bloomberg’s Meme Campaign
Michael Bloomberg, who suspended his 2020 Democratic presidential nomination campaign on March 3, spent nearly 600…
Cryptocurrencies’ Hidden Cost: The Danger of Blockchain to the Climate Crisis
Bitcoin developers have cast their program as an outstretched hand reaching the world’s underdeveloped populations,…
How to Escape Our Technology-Induced Trance
A fascinating conversation with Professor Samuele Collu of McGill University’s Anthropology Department on our use…
Are Contemporary Art Galleries Victims of Globalization?
Now established spaces symbolic of expression and innovation, galleries nevertheless meet economic imperatives in…
Unmasking the Alt-Right: Real-World Implications of a Virtual Movement
We have seen too often that radicalization in the virtual world can lead to real-world violence; we have seen…
Huawei 5G: Trapped in an Olive Branch
An olive branch does not exist if one is forced to accept the offering. And in many ways, the US is forced to…