A Digital First Dystopia
We must ensure the right to paper, the right to conduct business in cash, and freedom of choice. Digital systems should be an option, not a mandate.
Technology
The BSA’s Digging Its Own Grave
Two decisions highlight the need for its rapid disestablishment.
Freedom of Speech Is Dying in Europe
When people can speak freely across borders, traditional state propaganda loses its grip, making the subjugation of the internet the primary imperative for modern political control.
Why Oil Keeps Getting More Abundant
Oil deposits may be finite, but human knowledge is not. Freedom, innovation, and entrepreneurship continually transform our use of resources.
Operation Midnight Hammer – Impressive but Fragile
Last year’s attacks on Iran showed American capabilities are impressive – but also fragile.
Cheap Media Voyeurism Feeds the Surveillance Culture
It’s more than the public shaming of unimportant people – it’s a warning that they can do it to you, too.
Data Centres, Who Needs ’Em?
The water and energy demand of coming AI data centres in New Zealand is presently getting considerable attention. The supply of cooling water for the centres is actually a distraction because it is just a matter of having suitable locations. […] The real issue is about energy. The already-consented Datagrid
Locals Push Back Against $3.5 Billion AI Data Centre
Locals packed the Invercargill Workingmen’s Club to hear more about the company’s planned 78,000-square-metre facility at Makarewa. They questioned the complex’s electricity demand, noise, water use and potential infrastructure impacts.
Searching in the Dark
How three government agencies are ignoring twenty years of e-discovery technology – and using their own backwardness against OIA requesters.
Are We Losing How To Be Human?
Be like the man alone fishing on the shore and never succumb to the lie that the act of DOING is something that needs to be sped up or removed from the human equation. DOING is not far from BEING.
Flock Builds the Digital Police State
The cameras are watching. The databases are growing. The networks are connecting. Unless we act now, there may soon be nowhere left to go without the government knowing exactly where we have been.