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Digitalization

How often do you use your smart phone, smart watch, wearable or fitness tracker? Do you go cashless when buying groceries or do you program your coffee machine to have your first cup ready before you get out of bed? If your answer is yes to any of the above, then you know how digital technologies are invading every aspect of our personal lives. How will new technologies continue to change our lives and society as a whole?

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9 Article

When Critical Thinking Isn’t Enough: To Beat Information Overload, We Need to Learn “Critical Ignoring”

Beset by advertisements and noxious information, our attention is increasingly fractured.
Ralph Hertwig et al.
The Conversation, 2023
8 Book

Power and Progress

Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity
Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson
Public Affairs, 2023
8 Book

The Loop

How Technology Is Creating a World Without Choices and How to Fight Back
Jacob Ward
Hachette Book Group USA, 2022
8 Book
Jan van Dijk
Polity Press, 2020
9 Book

MoneyBall Medicine

Thriving in the New Data-Driven Healthcare Market
Harry Glorikian and Malorye Allison Branca
Productivity Press, 2017
9 Report
Nic Newman et al.
Reuters Institute, 2022
8 Article

This Room Could Wirelessly Charge All Your Devices

New technology delivers power to electronic devices in a test space
Sophie Bushwick
Scientific American, 2021
9 Book

Cogs and Monsters

What Economics Is, and What It Should Be
Diane Coyle
Princeton UP, 2021
9 Article

Your Boss Wants to Spy on Your Inner Feelings

Tech companies now use AI to analyze your feelings in job interviews and public spaces. But the software is prone to racial, cultural and gender bias
John McQuaid
Scientific American, 2021
8 Book

The Inversion Factor

How to Thrive in the IoT Economy (MIT Press)
Linda Bernardi et al.
MIT Press, 2017
Book

Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free

Laws for the Internet Age
Cory Doctorow
McSweeney's Publishing, 2014
9 Article

Resisting the Rise of Facial Recognition

Growing use of surveillance technology has prompted calls for bans and stricter regulation.
Antoaneta Roussi and Richard Van Noorden
Nature, 2020