Technology companies aren’t just stealing your intellectual property – your creative content - they’re making vast profits out of selling it back to you. AI-powered apps like ChatGPT are trained on vast amounts of stolen data. What’s worse, it’s all justified as a public good. They call it “efficient infringement”. So, why are they allowed to get away with it? And what can be done about it? Also, the Living Building Challenge – it’s about building better construction and healthier communities; and a call for greater focus on prevention in dealing with domestic violence.
Big corporations are taking over as landlords and it's further fuelling the global housing crisis
The great distribution dilemma – can public interest journalism survive?
Dark sky at night, everyone's delight
Nobel-Prize laureate Abhijit Banerjee on the world's largest UBI experiment
The manufacturing of "natural food" and how tech can demystify what we eat
Self-destructive behaviour — the enemy within
Fear and anger – the complicated emotions that govern our world
Algorithmic homogeny – why everything looks and feels the same
The weaponisation of nostalgia; and has culture come to a standstill?
Are we really becoming more isolated and less community minded?
TikTok's superstar economy – how live-streaming is turning social media into a game played for money
Conversing with aliens and 'decentering' the human
Does AI show we overestimate our human creativity? And what does creativity mean anyway?
Growing houses and running computers with help from bacteria — the future of synthetic biology
Building a new social contract
The Great Regression and the "kidification" of adulthood
Research productivity and innovation is declining
Managerialism ... and what it means for work
Turning our back on alcohol
Who are the beneficiaries of climate change?
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