NZ Could Lead The Way
Road-user charges can pay for more than just road maintenance, so why stop there? New Zealand could use electronic road-user charges to encourage all sorts of other behaviours.
Technology
This Is a Trojan Horse
The National Government officially announced the eRUC system through Transport Minister Chris Bishop, presenting it as a fairer way to fund roading.
US Halts mRNA While NZ Is Silent
Our patients deserve better than experimental gene therapy disguised as public health policy. They deserve honest doctors who put patient safety before political convenience. They deserve the truth.
The Gen Z Doubt Is a Sign
Education and skill development are vital, but nothing is more important than individual responsibility. From Gen Alpha to older Americans, we must take it upon ourselves to consume content better.
Police Pursue New DNA Leads in 1980 Case
Forty-five years ago, Alicia O’Reilly was tragically raped and murdered in her Avondale family home.
New Designer DNA by the Wellcome Trust
We don’t need to experiment on, or alter our genomes: we need to stop inducing epigenetic changes that are making us all ‘dis-eased’.
Encryption: A Matter of Privacy and a Free Society
Digital backdoors must be recognised as a threat to your privacy, security and, most importantly, freedom.
Understanding Why We Fear AI
It’s not the technology that bothers us. It’s what the technology reveals about who we are.
NZ First Does Not Support the Gene Therapies Bill
Thank you Shane, Winston, and everyone within NZ First.
Why ‘Planned Obsolescence’ Is Pretty Great, Really
They don’t make ’em like they used to, for a good reason.
This Faith in Biotechnology and AI
The risks to the whole structure of Western civilisation should be obvious, but somehow we are sleepwalking to disaster. We need to wake up.
This Threat Has Evolved, so Should We
We must act not out of fear, but foresight. The jihadist genie is not gone. Whether we contain it – or ignore it again – is a matter of political will and strategic maturity.
Mean Girls Get a Heaping Dose of Their Own Medicine
Women who secretly doxxed and defamed men get exposed.