Technology

Are smart techno-managerial solutions the perfect alibi for resource extraction and inequality in our cities? We talked to author and academic Maria Kaika about the way that green technology so-called solutions are sometimes anything but, and can displace real action.

Algorithms: supposedly neutral but in fact liable to perpetuate various forms of discrimination, including against women and people of colour. How do they exert such power, and what are the stakes?

Experts and politicians around Europe discuss the state of the AI and robotics debate in their country and the position of the Green party.

From self-driving cars to intelligent implants – we’re living in an increasingly automated world, yet the legal safeguards are lagging behind.

What can be done to reconcile technological progress and civic democracy?

What concrete changes can we expect from the ‘digital revolution’ & how can we deal with changes to work, policy-wise? Does a basic income help?

New technology developing at breakneck speed has left laws behind and increasingly puts not only our privacy but our immediate safety at risk.

A review of Frederic Gros’s book – The Principal Security – which outlines his increasingly pertinent concept of biosecurity.

Post-Trump, should Greens embrace the potential of negative carbon emissions?

Big data, surveillance politics, & what we learned from Snowden.