Essay: West Africa’s coast was a haven for piracy and illegal fishing – how technology is changing the picture
IFESINACHI OKAFOR-YARWOOD, in an article first published on The Conversation, looks at the progress being made in addressing security threats off West Africa’s coast…
Painstaking work: Armed with new tech, families track down Mexico’s missing
From social media to online legal templates, Mexican families are using tech to search for missing relatives and pressure officials into action. DIANA BAPTISTA, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports…
Sight-Seeing: Christian educators – Don’t be afraid of ChatGPT
In an article first published on Religion News Service, BRIAN PAIGE, vice president and chief information officer at Calvin University in the US, says that emerging technology causes us to wrestle with issues of the heart…
Essay: Deep dive into 2023 technologies
MAL FLETCHER says neural implants will be among those developments making news in 2023…
Helpdesk: How fake science websites hijack our trust in experts to misinform and confuse
ISOBELLE CLARKE, Leverhulme Trust Early Career Research Fellow at Lancaster University, looks at the rise of fake science websites – and tips for how to spot them…
Essay: Facial recognition, migrants and techism
MAL FLETCHER, writing from London, argues that law-makers are focusing too much on technology, relying on it as the main prism through which to observe and evaluate human behaviour…
This Life: Set your heart on things above
US columnist CAROL ROUND, in an article first published on ASSIST News Service, says living a simple life leads us to the very throne of our Heavenly Father…
Constant change
In William Bridges’ famous book, Transitions, he points out that for virtually all of human history we have honoured those in a community who protected our stable continuation. PICTURE: srgktk/iStockphoto Those who kept us safe – reinforced our communal rules and stories, the status quo – were our heroes. We now live in the first era of […]
Technology…or behaviour?
My daughter pointed out to me that in virtually all books written before the Industrial Revolution that imagine future time-travel, none of them imagine technological improvement. Rather they look at future human behaviour. PICTURE: Ales Nesetril/Unsplash. Technological improvements were inconceivable before the industrial revolution, now they are the focus of almost all future discussion. And behaviour is […]
“Cutting-edge solutions”: The African software developers using AI to fight inequality
KIM HARRISBERG, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on the growing number of African developers pioneering the use of artificial intelligence to tackle their continent’s challenges…