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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.

Reflections on Brownstone's Retreat - Brownstone Institute

Reflections on Brownstone’s Retreat

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People participating at the Brownstone Institute Retreat understand what is happening. It was a relief to be reminded that a wide range of committed and highly intelligent people understand the critical importance of challenging and interdicting what is being attempted. This resistance to power was a theme that ran through many of the presentations and discussions we experienced at the Retreat. I feel privileged to have been a part.

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Technology: Weapon of the People - Brownstone Institute

Technology: Weapon of the People

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In sum, while the poisonous aspect of the media pharmakon has not nearly exhausted its toxic potency, the curative side has incrementally been gaining strength and therapeutic effectiveness, as reflected in the anxiety of the ‘Davos elites,’ detectable in their worry, that they no longer ‘own the news.’ They thought they had it all under control, but were caught unawares by the unexpected power of the alternative media – those ever-expanding digital spaces of the machine inhabited by the resistance. 

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A Digital Coup d’Etat - Brownstone Institute

A Digital Coup d’Etat

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All these efforts were global in scope. This whole model truly stretches the bounds of plausibility. And yet all the evidence points to exactly the above. It just goes to show that even if you don’t believe in conspiracies, conspiracies believe in you. It was a digital-age coup d’etat unlike anything humanity has ever experienced. How long will it take us to process this reality? We seem to be only at the early stages of understanding, much less resisting.

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ChatGPT Can Get Off My Lawn - Brownstone Institute

ChatGPT Can Get Off My Lawn

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Will artificial intelligence become the greatest boon to higher education since online learning? (This assumes that online learning was a boon, which is a topic for another day.) Or will it mean the utter destruction of academia as we know it? Those are the two views I see expressed most often these days, with various individuals I respect taking opposite sides.

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American Totalitarian "Crypto Dollar" May Come Before the Election - Brownstone Institute

American Totalitarian “Crypto Dollar” May Come Before the Election

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Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) threaten to replace the cash we use with programmable, trackable, and censorable tokens controlled by governments. Your financial choices could be suppressed, and privacy eliminated. Based on what I’ve learned and experienced directly, this could happen before the 2024 election. The best way to stop it is through direct action, not through politics. 

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Brownstone Institute - Government Funds AI Tools for Whole-of-Internet Surveillance and Censorship

Government Funds AI Tools for Whole-of-Internet Surveillance and Censorship

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Internet-wide surveillance and censorship, enabled by the unimaginably vast computational power of artificial intelligence (AI), is here. This is not a futuristic dystopia. It’s happening now. Government agencies are working with universities and nonprofits to use AI tools to surveil and censor content on the Internet. This is not political or partisan. This is not about any particular opinion or idea.

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Brownstone Institute - They Inch Towards Total Technological Control

They Inch Towards Total Technological Control

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In a move that casts George Orwell’s 1984 in a distinctly passé light, these well-nigh invisible flying objects will be programmed and used by organisations such as the World Economic Forum (WEF) for population surveillance, to detect so-called ‘thought crimes’ on the part of citizens. Needless to spell out, this will be done with a view to controlling people in a failsafe manner, anticipating supposed ‘criminal’ action before it is committed. 

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