Who designs these technologies? Who owns the data? What choices do people truly have when they’re compelled to submit personal information? How long is it stored? Technologies are not neutral. They embody the interests, values and biases of those who design and implement them.
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.
The National Government officially announced the eRUC system through Transport Minister Chris Bishop, presenting it as a fairer way to fund roading.
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.
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.
Forty-five years ago, Alicia O’Reilly was tragically raped and murdered in her Avondale family home.
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’.
Digital backdoors must be recognised as a threat to your privacy, security and, most importantly, freedom.
It’s not the technology that bothers us. It’s what the technology reveals about who we are.
Thank you Shane, Winston, and everyone within NZ First.
They don’t make ’em like they used to, for a good reason.
The risks to the whole structure of Western civilisation should be obvious, but somehow we are sleepwalking to disaster. We need to wake up.
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.
