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By the light of a mobile screen
SPIRITUALITY: In the few years since TV and internet were introduced to Bhutan, daily rituals like candle lighting and recitation of prayer now compete with the lure of smartphones.
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The coming technological decade
EDITORIAL: Will increased control or monitoring in this decade eventually leave more to algorithms that carry out actions based on so-called "actionable intelligence"?
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Truth as a game of cat and mouse
MEDIA:The Bellingcat group is on the frontline of an urgent counter-movement against the manufacture and dissemination of lies that are destabilising traditional journalism.
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Stanley Kubrick, the realist
As a filmmaker he has had a significant impact on many of us. In a progressively militarized and technified world, Kubrick remains highly relevant.
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Intelligent care for a world in disorder
PHILOSOPHY: The central argument in The Neganthropocene is that the world is at risk of lapsing into a nihilistic state, as our failure to care for it becomes ever more manifest. But the challenge Stiegler takes upon himself is to show the way to an alternative anthropology.
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The sweat of labour
The book Move Fast and Break Things criticises Google, Facebook and Amazon sharply, but is at the same time partly romantic and crude.
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Sweeping up the internet
The «cleaners» of global social media platforms live in harsh societies and conditions of comparative clutter to those after whom they are cleaning up.
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Free markets are an illusion
CAPITALISM: John Mikler argues that the world's largest companies are economically superior to their competitors to such an extent it is wrong to speak of free competition.
