Michael Cook Michael Cook is the editor of MercatorNet. He lives in Sydney, Australia. Israeli scientists have created the world’s first “synthetic embryos”. They used mouse stem cells to create embryos, nurtured them in an artificial womb and grew them for 8½ days – roughly the equivalent of three weeks
This series is designed to help people to understand modern technology, and become more confident in using computing devices. It is not designed to educate experts. The author is involved in tutoring older students at SeniorNet, a New Zealand wide organisation. SeniorNet hopes that students will feel more confident in
This series is designed to help people to understand modern technology, and become more confident in using computing devices. It is not designed to educate experts. The author is involved in tutoring older students at SeniorNet, a New Zealand-wide organisation. SeniorNet hopes that students will feel more confident in using
John Mac Ghlionn brownstone.org With a doctorate in psychosocial studies, John Mac Ghlionn works as both a researcher and essayist. His writing has been published by the likes of Newsweek, NY Post and The American Conservative. What’s the most valuable commodity in the world? Grain, coffee, precious metals?
Dr Kate Raynes-Goldie particle.scitech.org.au In an age when disruption is the new normal, curiosity is the becomes the key 21st century skill. This is why Dr. Kate is an advocate for curiosity, through her work as a designer, speaker, writer and researcher. She’s written for variety
Tom Valovic mercatornet.com Tom Valovic is a journalist and the author of Digital Mythologies (Rutgers University Press), a series of essays that explored emerging social and political issues raised by the advent of the internet. He has served as a consultant to the former Congressional Office of Technology Assessment.
lens.monash.edu As Meta (formerly Facebook) expands access to its virtual reality (VR) platform, disturbing accounts of women being sexually assaulted and harassed in its metaverse are also racking up. From a vice-president of research for another metaverse company who claims she was groped by a group of male
Saul Zimet fee.org Saul Zimet was a Hazlitt Fellow at the Foundation for Economic Education and a graduate student in economics at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice at the City University of New York. The debate over whether technological progress is ultimately good or bad for humanity
Jeffrey A Tucker brownstone.org Jeffrey A Tucker is founder and president of the Brownstone Institute and the author of many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press and 10 books in five languages, most recently Liberty or Lockdown. He is also the editor of The Best of
New Zealand Game Developers Association (NZGDA) Existing government measures won’t stop one of our fastest-growing sectors moving to Australia.“Existing government policies won’t stop New Zealand gaming and interactive media companies from choosing to expand in Australia instead of New Zealand,” New Zealand Game Developers Association (NZGDA) Chairman
David Tuffley Griffith University David is a Senior Lecturer in Applied Ethics and CyberSecurity at Griffith University’s School of Information & Communication Technology in Brisbane/Gold Coast. When English statesman Sir Francis Bacon famously said “knowledge is power”, he could hardly have foreseen the rise of ubiquitous social media
Patrick Carroll fee.org Patrick Carroll has a degree in chemical engineering from the University of Waterloo and is an editorial fellow at the Foundation for Economic Education. For millions of people in the US and around the world, TikTok has become the latest craze. Creating your own videos and
Ismini Vasileiou De Montfort University Paul Haskell-Dowland Edith Cowan University Dr Ismini Vasileiou is an Associate Professor in Information Systems (FBCS, SFHEA) and Associate Head of School (Deputy) at the School of Computer Science and Informatics, De Montfort University, Leicester. Professor Paul Haskell-Dowland is the Professor of Cyber Security Practice
On opposite sides of the world, two separate court cases have potentially massive consequences for social media. In one case, Australian journalist Avi Yemini has won a court injunction against an anonymous Twitter account that has repeatedly attacked and – he says – defamed him on the platform. Yemini intends to sue
We often hear about the devastating potential of cyber-terrorism, or the dangerous vulnerability of our interconnected world to natural events like solar flares. Cyber-terrorism is not just a theoretical bee in some think-tank’s bonnet: it’s already happening. We’ve just been incredibly lucky, so far. For example, an
Twitter’s original slogan was “Tell us what you really think.” Reading some people’s tweets, you often have to ask yourself: what the hell were they thinking? Twitter has become notorious for ruining people over a single, thoughtless tweet. Usually, they’re low-level former nobodies, mindlessly thumbing out their
