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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.

The Cost of Facebook’s Now-Repudiated Censorship

The Cost of Facebook’s Now-Repudiated Censorship

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Meta’s dismantling of its fact-checking program – announced by Zuckerberg as a “cultural tipping point towards prioritizing speech” – reads like a quiet footnote to what may be one of the most staggering violations of fundamental rights in recent memory.

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They're Trialing Self-Amplifying RNA-LNP-Based Products

They’re Trialing Self-Amplifying RNA-LNP-Based Products

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Will the people be told the truth about the GMO-ness and forever-copying-ness of these products? Will the remaining and unresolved compendial standard issues pertaining to the potency and process-related impurities be addressed? Will the LNP toxicity issues be investigated properly?

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Millions of Entries Erased from World’s Largest Obituary Database

Millions of Entries Erased from World’s Largest Obituary Database

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Legacy.com is a website where you can search “the world’s largest obituary database,” with nearly 50,000,000 entries accumulated since 1998. Given the claim that Legacy.com offers a “permanent” space for commemoration, the recent discoveries raise some interesting questions.

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