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Facebook changing its name to Meta will not change the fact that all social media platforms make promises they can’t keep.

Thanks to “genetic genealogy,” solving crimes with genomic databases is becoming mainstream — with some uncomfortable implications for the future of privacy.

Futurology has long been a risky business.

Automation & Pervasive, Connected Technology to Pose Cyber Threats in 2030 A project to look at potential cybersecurity threats in a decade sees hackers and marketers sending spam directly to our vision, while attackers automated systems adapt faster than defenses. RSA CONFERENCE 2021 – Business processes managed by machines. A national digital fiat currency. Pervasive connected devices in clothing fabric and as implants. Augmented reality displayed directly onto peoples contact lenses. This ...

Jones replied, “We wanted to make sure that the modelling was actually showing up in our hospitals.” This was a curious answer at the heart of the slow, ineffective government responses to the pandemic. It is also why the so-called “balanced response” advocated by those seeking to calibrate public health responses against real-time data was always doomed to fail. The problem, simply, is exponential growth. Most don’t understand it. In a pandemic, that failure of understanding is our u...

Article content By Raywat Deonandan Recently, Solicitor General Sylvia Jones was asked on CBC Radio why Ontario had waited so long to enact COVID-19 restrictions doctors and scientists had been pleading for. Earlier, Ontario’s Science Table had observed a worrying growth trend in cases and ICU usage and had forecast a dire, explosive situation weeks away. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or Deonandan: How Ontario fell for the balanced COVID res...

Telecommuting will make Boston share the wealth Jeff Howe © Federico Gastaldi for the Boston Globe There’s a saying in technology circles, commonly ascribed to the futurist Roy Amara, that we tend to overestimate the short-term impacts of a new technology but underestimate its long-term consequences. The telephone, commercial air travel, and even the Internet all failed to live up to their initial hype but ultimately transformed our culture and the economy. Popular Searches ...

Old ways of working and living will give way to a ‘polycentric’ region. By Jeff Howe Federico Gastaldi for the Boston Globe There’s a saying in technology circles, commonly ascribed to the futurist Roy Amara, that we tend to overestimate the short-term impacts of a new technology but underestimate its long-term consequences. The telephone, commercial air travel, and even the Internet all failed to live up to their initial hype but ultimately transformed our culture and the economy. Amara�...

​​ Indias public digital infrastructure — in many ways, an immense online bureaucracy — is an outlier to this principle. The effort was written-off in the short run, but, less than a decade after it was introduced, it has mobilized technology at the grass-roots, tapping into the countrys huge domestic potential. India is now ready to share its experience with the developing world.

While it began with Manmohan Singh's govt, Aadhaar became the backbone of India’s public digital infrastructure in 2014 when PM Modi combined it with his govt’s Jan Dhan initiative