What is science’s rightful place? How should we govern technology?
Symposium | Winter 2022
Winter 2022
A century ago, new media tech brought fake news, privacy woes, and censorship fights — and American democracy tamed it. It’s time for new legislation that revives the wisdom of that era.
Americans don’t care about privacy as much as they say.
How fears of mind control went from paranoid delusion to conventional wisdom
How military drone technology is quietly creeping into policing, business, and everyday life
Proposed privacy and bot laws don’t target real problems, and would cause needless harm
Strengthening our social fabric won’t be enough to fix the platform that’s fraying it
Silicon Valley will only be strengthened by its present scandals unless we ask deeper questions.
Amid growing calls to break up Google, are we missing a quiet alignment between “smart” government and the universal information engine?