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CHINA: How do we wake up to a world with China as ruler?
Niels Johan Juhl-Nielsen -

Inept leaders

ESSAY: Why are these overlooked leaders so hairy – like China, Russia, and America under Trump?
Ole Robert Sunde -

Realists Stanley Kubrick

He is a filmmaker who has meant a lot to many of us. In a world that is globalized and militarized, Kubrick is still relevant.
Truls Lie -

An increasingly nihilistic world

TECHNOLOGY: The world is becoming increasingly nihilistic as it becomes increasingly clear that humanity is unable to take care of it. The challenge Bernard Stiegler takes on is to show the way to an alternative anthropology – in practice as well as in theory.
Anders Dunk -

Future without utopia?

Rees strives as much as the rest of us to separate science from science fiction. He declares himself a technological optimist and political pessimist, but the role of technology becomes difficult to understand without a credible vision of a better world.
Anders Dunk -

The technology of yield

Uber's algorithms rewrite the conditions of work, believes technology ethnographer Alex Rosenblat. But the question is whether the app company is not just taking advantage of the existing conditions.
Nina Trige Andersen -

Teknotid and human time

Nymoten's apps that will make us more productive through planning and streamlining, continue a two-hundred-year tradition of self-help literature about the same.
Nina Trige Andersen -

The patent laws create an intellectual monopoly

Today's patent rules are outdated and hinder the innovation and diffusion of technology, argues Zia Quereshi, former head of development economics at the World Bank. Is it time for a patent reform?
zia@nytid.com -

Women's place in the digital revolution

Men have better access to digital technology – women risk falling behind in the new labor market. But technology can also promote equality.
sandrine@nytid.no -

Magicians and prophets about the future of nature

In an effective mix of polemics and history of ideas, this book shows how the environmental situation is a product of the ideas we have about it.
Anders Dunk -

A perpetual growth curve of incessant technological innovation from Tesla's Elon Musk, Google CEO Eric Schmidt and a host of other tech moguls

Critical settlement with the belief that technology can solve all of humanity's problems in artist and theorist James Bridle's new book.
Dominique Routhier -

Silicon China's emergence

China's technology giants are expanding, and their attitude to data collection and privacy will challenge other countries.
marion@nytid.no -

Imaginary meetings

How are we going to evolve in the technology era? Author Jessica Sequeira believes that we have rich opportunities to develop living thinking in the face of technology.
Henning Næs -

Machine Man

The technological man was recently examined during a seminar organized by the Norwegian Critics' Association, as part of the literature festival at Lillehammer.
Hanne Ramsdal -

Life without thinking

BIG TECH: Author Franklin Foer gives a historical overview of Big Tech's impact on society and asks how we can fight its pervasive power.
Bianca-Olivia Nita -

Immortality and artificial intelligence 

Technology's artificial intelligence (AI) is hinted at by many as more significant than the discovery of fire and, later, electricity. So what are we facing now? 
Truls Lie -
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Rich full-format MODERN TIMES including the supplement Orientering and Modern Times Review comes out quarterly in early March, June, September and December) with international book reviews (non-fiction) and comments / essays. According to the physical newspaper (and PDF), the articles are published regularly online (see the newsletters).

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