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Analyzing a tech issue/event through the lens of history doesn’t mean explaining the history of a…

Analyzing a tech issue/event through the lens of history doesn’t mean explaining the history of a…

Looking at an issue or event related to technology through the lens of history starts with a clearly defined issue or event. Selecting ‘the…
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Technology and Society: “The Digital Environment”

Technology and Society: “The Digital Environment”

Review of The Digital Environment: How we, live, learn, work, and play by P. Boczkowski and E. Mitchelstein
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Humanities Lens: Artificial Intelligence and its impact on society.

Humanities Lens: Artificial Intelligence and its impact on society.

Technology and Society: Humanities Lens
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Cameras and the Technology of Photography Through the Four Lenses

Cameras and the Technology of Photography Through the Four Lenses

Example of where analysis could go when looking at an issue or event through the four lenses.
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Historical lenses allow you to rethink how you understand the world today.

Historical lenses allow you to rethink how you understand the world today.

Technology and Society: Historical Lens
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Why global powers are doubling down on a tiny little known African island.

Why global powers are doubling down on a tiny little known African island.

A small group of islands surrounded by hundreds of miles of Atlantic ocean, part of the African Continent, a member of the United Nations…
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Food — A Weapon of War

Food — A Weapon of War

The 2121 UN Food Systems Summit aims to hack into collaborative sustainability and innovation to kick the global food crisis, but there is…
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Global Sustainability: Tomorrow’s Pandemic Starts Today

Global Sustainability: Tomorrow’s Pandemic Starts Today

Sustainability means that people can rely on consistent methods of having the very most basic, lowest level of physiological needs met…
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A discussion with UN Food Summit Champion, Ntiokam Divine, from Cameroon

A discussion with UN Food Summit Champion, Ntiokam Divine, from Cameroon

UN Food Summit Champion, Ntiokam Divine, Founder of Climate Smart Agriculture Youth Network Global (CSAYN Global)
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A prominent Nigerian Shi’a Muslim leader, killings, prison, politics, and a daughter’s unknown…

A prominent Nigerian Shi’a Muslim leader, killings, prison, politics, and a daughter’s unknown…

Suhaila Zakzacky, the youngest daughter of Ibrahim El Zakzaky, the jailed leader of the Islamic Movement Nigeria, must live past trauma…
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The Greatest Threat to Innovation: Beavers and Governments

The Greatest Threat to Innovation: Beavers and Governments

Without access to information and the ability to expand the scope and scale of what you can do with that information you don’t innovate and…
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Technology and society from a social science perspective

Technology and society from a social science perspective

Technology and Society: Social Sciences Lens
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Somaliland: The Country That Does Not Exist

Somaliland: The Country That Does Not Exist

Gérard Prunier, author of “The Country That Does Not Exist,” highlights the lonely achievements of Somaliland’s sovereignty and argues for…
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The beautiful and ugly side to Africa’s Great Green Wall project.

The beautiful and ugly side to Africa’s Great Green Wall project.

Mother nature is not on the same schedule as politics.
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Going Home: Can the Root Causes of Migration be Solved?

Going Home: Can the Root Causes of Migration be Solved?

“Since 1990, approximately 45 percent of migrants have returned to their home countries, a much higher estimate than previously reported. —…
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The World Has Always Had a Food Problem — Why?

The World Has Always Had a Food Problem — Why?

2021 Food Systems Summit
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The Secrete: Building an “atomic network,” the smallest possible network that can grow itself!

The Secrete: Building an “atomic network,” the smallest possible network that can grow itself!

The Cold Start Problem: How to start and scale network effects, by Andrew Chen (2021)
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Global digital culture involves billions of objects and hundreds of millions of contributors.

Global digital culture involves billions of objects and hundreds of millions of contributors.

Digital globalization is redefining the study of culture.
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Consumers hardly notice when sharks and spies bite into their data as it moves across the ocean…

Consumers hardly notice when sharks and spies bite into their data as it moves across the ocean…

“Glory to God in the highest; on earth, peace, and goodwill toward men.”
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Women make up 80 percent of Kenyan Farmers, but few women are allowed to own land.

Women make up 80 percent of Kenyan Farmers, but few women are allowed to own land.

A discussion with Dr. Jemimah Njuki, Kenyan, and the Custodian of the Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment Lever of Change for the 2021…
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Technology as a means to control the population — written about in 1932

Technology as a means to control the population — written about in 1932

Technology and Society: Humanities
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US Agriculture Innovation Mission for Climate to be advanced at UN Food Systems Summit in…

US Agriculture Innovation Mission for Climate to be advanced at UN Food Systems Summit in…

AIM for Climate — Biden Harris Administration keeping their promices.
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US Honors Women Leaders on International Women’s Day

US Honors Women Leaders on International Women’s Day

March 8, 2021
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The Panopticon Effect on Your Life Today & The Future of Decentralization in Tech

The Panopticon Effect on Your Life Today & The Future of Decentralization in Tech

Thinking your being watched influences your behavior.
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Dr. Agnes Kalibata, UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy to the 2021 Food Systems Summit

Dr. Agnes Kalibata, UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy to the 2021 Food Systems Summit

I had the opportunity to interview this year’s UN Food Systems Summit leader for Today News Africa, and learn about what a “food system”…
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The lens of natural science on technology and society

The lens of natural science on technology and society

Technology and Society: Natural Science
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A bleak but realistic picture of the future of big tech and political tango.

A bleak but realistic picture of the future of big tech and political tango.

Book Review: Tools and Weapons — The Promise and Peril of the Digital Age by Brad Smith and Carol Ann Browne
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Mount Nyiragongo explodes in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s eastern city of Goma, reminding…

Mount Nyiragongo explodes in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s eastern city of Goma, reminding…

A country struggling with insecurity, lack of food and clean water, Cholera outbreaks, COVID-19, poverty, human trafficking, that sits at…
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