Technology

The digital space needs to be regulated according to a new set of principles that protect fundamental rights but also user freedoms.

Social media platforms have created a situation where extreme views are amplified and facts are secondary.

In recent years, surveillance technologies have increasingly been deployed to monitor, control, and curtail the movement of people. The pandemic is accelerating this trend.

To prevent the crystalisation of existing hierarchies and oppression, techno-scientific advances must keep freedom, equality, and sustainability as guiding principles.

From policy matters to debates over strategy, this divide shapes political visions with the green camp and beyond. In order to navigate it, its roots must first be understood.

What is algorithmic governmentality? What transformations are the tech revolution catalysing in society and politics? In this in-depth conversation, legal philosopher Antoinette Rouvroy questions the drive to rationalise all aspects of life through data and sets out possibilities for alternatives.

The world’s political order is in upheaval. Janka Oertel speaks about the Sino-American conflict, the 5G dispute, and Germany’s role in formulating a new European China policy.

Tracing the rise of transhumanism, the techno-utopian philosophy that provides no answer to social and environmental crisis.

The Harvard Business School Professor Emerita discusses the large-scale rollout of surveillance capitalism and the challenges this poses to democracy.

In the first of a three-part series, we look at how blind optimism must be replaced by a societal debate in which technological advances are held accountable.