Metaverse and smart cities: potential or vaporware?
What is the metaverse and how smart cities are meant to use it? Is it something that can provide real benefits to their users or just another empty concept?
Predictive justice keeps marching on: increased security or dystopia?
Artificial Intelligence can reduce the time spent by Law professionals on preparing a case by analyzing millions of judicial decisions similar to those they are dealing with. But its deployment carries significant ethical challenges.
The case for… cities that aren’t dystopian surveillance states
17/06/2022 – The Guardian Cities
Are cities engines of production or consumption, and does it matter?
26/06/2022 – Brookings
Smart City Mission: ‘Towards a smarter city with our identity’
24/06/2022 – MorungExpress
Women in the health and care sector earn 24 per cent less than men
22/06/2022 – ILO
Electric mobility can defy the climate crisis, says General Motors
21/06/2022 – Afrik21
Why the surge in home construction will do little to address affordable housing
20/06/2022 – Crikey
Ethics and responsibility of self-driving cars: who is responsible for AI accidents?
Analyzing ethics and responsibility in autonomous driving: who is responsible for the accidents involving AI? How does insurance work? Risk, problems and solutions
Overpopulation: Is the future as bleak as it was depicted in the 1970s?
A technological environment without natural predators, with abundant food and state-of-the-art medicine that allows life expectancy to extend beyond 80 years, has led to population growth reaching limits that exceed the environment’s capacity. In 1972, the ‘The Limits to Growth’ report was published. Does it still apply or was it exaggerated?