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Child Safety We Can Earn It But At What Cost
How the EARN IT act weakens encryption protections under the pretense of child safety
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On Teaching Technology Lessons Learned
One of the benefits of 2020 was it gave us the opportunity to investigate how we do things in technology education (admittedly whether we wanted to or not). Social distancing requirements forced technology teachers to try new approaches and some definitely worked better than others.
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Untangling The Web The Next Internet
Properties of the Next Internet The internet is the most powerful communication system ever invented by humanity. Unfortunately, it was never completed. The missing parts have allowed the internet to become diseased with constant security threats and privacy invasions, with no way to stop or even slow the progression of
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De Platform The Internet
While the internet is inarguably the greatest invention in human telecommunication to date, its early idealism and utopian promise has given way to a profit-driven, algorithmically manipulated echo chamber that is starting to cause harm in the real world. Can we restore the internet’s promise?
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The Way Forward
Examine the societal challenges that stem from technology’s ever-pervasive role in our lives and how to confront those challenges in a way that allows technology and humanity to reach its full potential.
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The Cyber Pandemic
Examine the societal challenges that stem from technology’s ever-pervasive role in our lives and how to confront those challenges in a way that allows technology and humanity to reach its full potential.
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The Computer Tax
This three-part series examines the societal challenges that stem from technology’s ever-pervasive role in our lives and consider how to confront those challenges so that technology and humanity can reach their full potential.