Digital Futures
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How do we recover the emancipatory potential of technological change and bring it back under popular democratic control? As part of its Future Labs work, TNI is working to deepen our analysis and research on the impacts of rapid technological change in all of our areas of work.
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Digital Ecosocialism Breaking the power of Big Tech
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Digital Power State of Power 2023
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The Promises and Perils of Investor-Driven Fintech Forging People-Centered alternatives
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How Big Tech captured our public health system
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Blockchains: building blocks of a post-capitalist future?
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Digital Capitalism 6 week essential course for activists to understand how digitalisation is shaping our world
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Digital Power State of Power 2023
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The intelligent corporation Data and the digital economy
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Digital colonialism Analysis of Europe’s trade agenda
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How Big Tech captured our public health system
The privatisation of public services is a long-standing global trend. But in the wake of the pandemic and through the introduction of contact tracing apps, Big Tech has gone one step further: Large corporations like Amazon, Microsoft, and Google are now set to control the very infrastructure that underlies our public health system. In this eye-opening discussion, Arun Kundnani interviews Dr Seda Gürses about the dangers of a system in which we depend on profit-oriented companies for receiving basic health services. How did we get to this point, and how can we imagine a different future?
