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Technology

Technology articles offer in-depth analysis and opinion on digital systems, AI, biotechnology, surveillance, automation, and the philosophy of technology — exploring their impacts on individual liberty, privacy, human dignity, free speech, and everyday human experience.

We critically examine pressing issues like digital identity and programmable currency as tools of control, criminalization of online speech, automation’s erosion of human connection, AI systems that displace responsibility, public-health pretexts for restricting digital rights, biotech overreach, the loss of the human element in medicine, and technocratic architectures of control. We also explore pathways to reclaim human agency through resistance to surveillance, defense of open dialogue, and prioritization of presence and responsibility over algorithmic efficiency.

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When Models and Reality Clash: A Review of Predictions of Epidemic and Pandemic Mortality

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Modeling can assist in raising questions to be answered by research. Technological advances have contributed to the reduction in infectious diseases, including pandemic mortality. But misuse of technology through inappropriate use of models could undo many of these important gains.

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