Monday’s #MustRead List

Each week, I publish a list of interesting articles, essays and reports that may be of interest to the digital diplomacy community. This week-

1. Digital Transformation Is About Talent, Not Technology (Harvard Business Review)
2. How has technology changed – and changed us – in the past 20 years? (World Economic Forum)
3. Who Should Stop Unethical A.I.? (The New Yorker)
4. Myanmar’s Military Deploys Digital Arsenal of Repression in Crackdown (The New York Times)
5. In Northern Nevada desert, a technology firm aims to be a government (Associated Press)
6. U.S. to Impose Sweeping Rule Aimed at China Technology Threats (The Wall Street Journal)
7. In battle with U.S., China to focus on 7 ‘frontier’ technologies from chips to brain-computer fusion (Tomorrow City)
8. Canada falls behind on barcode technology for COVID-19 vaccine tracking (The Globe and Mail)
9. America grapples with regulating surveillance technology (The Economist)
10. 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2021 (MIT Technology Review)

Some light reading- A short history of nearly everything (Bill Bryson)