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TECHNOLOGY IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST
PUBLIC HEALTH
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EDUCATION
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SECURING DEMOCRACY
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CIVIL RIGHTS
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CLIMATE CRISIS
Damon Krukowski and Joyce Linehan
Spotify and the recording artist
In Spotify’s case, someone is certainly getting paid, but with song royalties at an estimated $0.00348 per stream, it’s not the working-class recording artist.
IDEAS | GABRIEL NICHOLAS
Be wary when Big Tech says it’s defending your privacy
Often, the real goal is to squash the competition.
LETTERS
Vaccine passports should not usher the way to even more social stratification
Airport security lines are already a panoply of priorities, loyalty promotion, and paid upgrades. Imagine after the pandemic seeing the same social hierarchy at the Museum of Fine Arts or TD Garden.
IDEAS | Marcel Fafchamps
Is technology giving us what the Soviets intended?
The dream of central economic planning died with the USSR. Thirty years later, technologies for matching supply and demand are a reality in America — as is the potential for surveillance Lenin and Stalin could only have dreamed of.
Elizabeth Dugan
How Massachusetts can become a living laboratory for aging
Let’s measure what’s going on in cities and towns so we can identify how a community’s aging circumstances change over time.
Jean Accius
A living laboratory must close the equity and opportunity gaps
As the nation recovers from the pandemic, we need to ensure that everyone can live a longer, healthier, more productive life.
IDEAS | VICTOR BENJAMIN
Divisive, demoralizing bots are winning, so big tech needs to think bigger
Facebook and Twitter are stuck playing whack-a-mole against inauthentic accounts. Here’s how they can change the game.
LETTERS
Collective effort in Boston-area biotech industry aims to give back to those in need
Since 2016, this collective effort has resulted in millions of dollars donated to help those affected by poverty, thousands of volunteer hours from biotechnology employees, and internship programs such as Project Onramp.
Michael Calabrese and Lester Salamon
To close digital equity gaps, US should endow a private Digital Futures Foundation
Auctions of government-owned airwaves produce a lot of revenue. A chunk of it should go toward closing digital equity gaps.
LETTERS
They, robot
"Technology will disrupt warfare in all domains: on land, on water, underwater, in the air, and in space."