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The Last Password: When Biometric Identity Can’t Be Changed
A forgotten password can be reset. A stolen credit card can be cancelled. But what happens when the key to…
Rights for Robots, Duties for Designers?
If a machine acts, who bears the blame? The programmer who wrote its code? The company that deployed it? Or,…
The Second Shift Online: How Remote Work Reinvented Domestic Labor
When the pandemic sent millions of workers home, remote work was hailed as liberation. No more commutes, more flexibility, a…
Cooling the Planet, Warming the Debate
Imagine dimming the sun just slightly — enough to cool the Earth by a degree or two. The idea sounds…
Empires in Orbit: The Geopolitics of Space Lanes
In the seventeenth century, Dutch East India vessels cut through contested seas, their sails heavy with spices and silver. These…
Genomic Firewalls: Who Decides Which DNA Gets Protected?
The double helix was once imagined as humanity’s shared blueprint — a universal language that transcended borders. Today, however, the…
The New Iron Curtain: How Fiber-Optic Cables Redraw Global Fault Lines
In the middle of the North Sea, ships drop anchor not for trade, but to lower a different kind of…
The Battery Belt: When Climate Tech Becomes Extractive Industry
In the Midwest, empty factories once built cars and appliances. Today, many of those same towns are luring battery plants…
The Weekend That Vanished: How Flexible Work Erased Time Off
It started as a perk: the freedom to log on from home, to shift hours around a school run, or…
Amnesty for Algorithms: Should Code Be Forgiven Like Humans?
When a human being commits a crime, societies debate whether rehabilitation is possible. Can the wrongdoer change? Should they be…
Digital Habeas Corpus: Do We Still Own Our Data Selves?
A century ago, courts debated whether the state could detain a body without due process. Today, the question looks eerily…
Diaspora Streaming: How Netflix Becomes a Homeland
On a Friday night in Paris, a Senegalese family gathers around their television to watch a Nollywood drama. In Toronto,…