Exponential: Order and Chaos in an Age of Accelerating Technology

by Azeem Azhar

Politicians frequently demonstrate a fundamental ignorance about even the most basic workings of mainstream technologies.

Unlike the binary nature of bits, which must either be a 0 or a 1, a qubit can represent all values between 0 and 1 simultaneously.

Luddites – a rag-tag group of disenfranchised workers who took their name from Ned Ludd, a mythic figure who supposedly declared war on his employer’s machines

Provided workers are given a say in how these technologies are used – and are given the opportunity to reject them – new workplace technologies need pose no threat to workers’ wellbeing.

Montreal’s 160,000-square-foot Lufa Farms greenhouse,

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find ourselves doubting scientific evidence and refusing to take a vaccine.

The author doesn't seem above a little propaganda here and there.

we must do more to make sure that the society we inhabit is worth defending.

But there were parts of our lives that we wouldn’t sell. The conversations between lovers or within families. Essential, personal information about our health, or our relationships, or our sex lives.

Kyle Rittenhouse shot and killed two unarmed protestors in Kenosha,

I'd refer the reader to the judicial verdict and the evidence supporting it. The author himself seems light on his "fact checking".