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What is the future of children, technology, and privacy? ia a lecture delivered by Nikolas Badminton at the Googleplex in Mountainview, California at Google at the 2018 3Q Partner Conference. Are we choosing to put our children in a situation of voluntary surveillance and...

What is the future of children, technology, and privacy? ia a lecture delivered by Nikolas Badminton at the Googleplex in Mountainview, California at Google at the 2018 3Q Partner Conference. Are we choosing to put our children in a situation of voluntary surveillance and...

In my last post I explained how recommender systems or recommender engines work and why the current iterations of these systems can make us modern humans look like a misinformed, cognitively biased, sad and pathetic kind of animal. In this piece I will argue...

We are beyond excited to welcome a new member to the Futurist Think Tank. Melissa Eshaghbeigi is a Webby award-winning Creative Strategist, Digital Ethnographer, Speaker and Futurist. She is deeply fascinated by human behaviour and lives to tell stories about the world around her. The world is...

Do you feel like your digital life has been eclipsed by your own preferences? That you keep going in circles with the same people, same kinds of movie recommendations, same ads and same controversies? Or vice versa, does it seem like your old friends...