Soviet Russian and Armenian Radio Astronomers in Communication with (Extra) Terrestrial Intelligence
What historians of science do is social and cultural history, but of a sort that is sometimes harder to look […]
Online Nuclear Regulators, Trust, and Feelings about the Future in Tanzania
‘When we talk about the National Atomic Energy Commission, what should an ordinary person think of?’ asked Tanzanian journalist Ramadhan
Being Fungible – They Only Want Us from the Neck Down
They Only Want Us from the Neck Down Across the airport car park, a figure in a mad dash—a sprawl
Wild Computing: a view from anthropology
Star computation scientist Stephen Wolfram has said that in order to accelerate the capacity of artificial intelligence towards a much more
The Imam Chatbot: A Digital Zeitgeist
Hey Adam! “In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Dear brothers and sisters, today I would
On Starships and people: Can we rescue the liberatory potentials of technology?
On April 20th, 2023, SpaceX attempted the first integrated flight of its biggest rocket called Starship. SpaceX is a private
How to use health technologies to “kill one little deer in the dark forest”
There is a global push towards making AI more ethical and transparent. As critical contributions on the topic of AI
Technologies of Trust: Introduction
This post is the introduction of our thematic thread on Trust, curated by Anna Weichselbraun (University of Vienna), Shaila Seshia Galvin (Geneva Graduate Institute)
Seeing Is Not Believing
This piece explores how the indexical quality of Facebook livestreams and the particular claims they make to represent or manifest
Trust the food chain, trust the blockchain
Using blockchain as a thread, IBM Food Trust tries to stitch the wounds in the global, decentralised food supply chain.