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Thoughtful about the click culture

Stare Into The Lights My Pretties explores how people are affected by the all-consuming need to be up-to-date and online. 
Dieter Wieczorek -

Hang the disc jockey, burn the disco 

Black Mirror season 4 consists of six standalone episodes with independent action sequences, but with powerful converging themes. These are projections of the intentional and unintended effects of technological duplication, and conflicts these create at both micro and macro levels.
Sigurd Ohrem -

The devil in the distractions

Solitude is at times an interesting reflection on the many qualities of loneliness, in a time when we are almost always associated with others. 
Steffen Moestrup -

The context of the little things

Who you are is in the ability to tell the story of yourself, where memories and small details make up the flow of the loom.
Kjetil Røed -

Bigger, faster and more inventive 

More people with ever-increasing energy consumption assume that we are accelerating technology development at an ever wilder pace.
Anders Dunk -

The wireless industry's sunsets?

Radiation: A call from scientists and doctors around the world calls on the European Commission to halt the rollout of 5G in Europe until the health and environmental impact has been investigated by impartial researchers. The call indicates that the harmful effects of microwaves are known, and already so extensive that they threaten the health of humans, animals and plants.
Einar Flydal -

About technology and crime prevention

Pre-Crime deals with different facets of statistically based crime prevention work – from the police and social sciences, through technological conditions to practice and impact.
Swear Sand -

Reversed revolution

The West must change its mindset that the good life is about modernization and technology.
Mikkel Bolt -

Science fiction anthology with a view to the abyss

The Netflix anthology Black Mirror delves deep into the human abyss. How far will technological developments go?
Sigurd Ohrem -

Technological developments threaten our collective memory

We humans need to know where we come from. Today's vast amount of information can, paradoxically, make it harder for future historians to know what the world is like today.
anrikevisser@gmail.com -

To plot people on the map

The traditional nomadic people of Mongolia are changing. Authorities are plotting the population on maps to get hold of them.
anrikevisser@gmail.com -

Future Fix Authorizations

Since Ny Tid prefers to look ahead, here we take a look at the series of sci-fi films that are now shown at Cinemateket. Fantasies and horror visions of future technology often paint a picture of our own time.
Aleksander Huser -

The hacked body

Physical implants that are injected into the body. Cyborgs with antennas. Women who monitor the ovulation through software. The body hackers tell us something about modern man's relationship to technology. 
Steffen Moestrup -

The gourmet and the future

The green shift in agriculture is on the way. Soon the cells from one cow can produce 175 millions of burgers, and the farms will direct the machinery from the tablet. 
Andrew P. Kroglund -

Intelligence in the time of the bullshit

We are unlikely to experience artificial intelligence in the near future. The question is how can we get stupid machines to facilitate human intelligence.
Tori Aarseth -

Empathy in games

The Sidra Project aims to get Canadian citizens involved in the refugee challenges. 
Steffen Moestrup -
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