Monday’s Must Read 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. Technology Without Transparency Lacks Trust (Forbes)
2. Start-Ups Aim Beyond Earth (The New York Times)
3. Carbon removal hype is becoming a dangerous distraction (MIT Technology Review)
4. The dangerous appeal of technology-driven futures (MIT Technology Review)
5. Pentagon Sees China’s Offensive Space Technology ‘On the March’ (Bloomberg)
6. Space technology will get increasingly privatised. India needs its own entrepreneur rocketeers (Times of India)
7. Can facial analysis technology create a child-safe internet? (The Guardian)
8. No laughing matter? How states use humour in public diplomacy (LSE Blog)
9. QAnon Pivots Its Exiled Online Movement to the Real World (Wired)

Some light reading- A Brief History of Time, by Stephen Hawking