Each week, I publish a list of interesting articles, essays and reports that may be of interest to the digital diplomacy community. This week-
- Technology Without Transparency Lacks Trust (Forbes)
- Start-Ups Aim Beyond Earth (The New York Times)
- Carbon removal hype is becoming a dangerous distraction (MIT Technology Review)
- The dangerous appeal of technology-driven futures (MIT Technology Review)
- Pentagon Sees China’s Offensive Space Technology ‘On the March’ (Bloomberg)
- Space technology will get increasingly privatised. India needs its own entrepreneur rocketeers (Times of India)
- Can facial analysis technology create a child-safe internet? (The Guardian)
- No laughing matter? How states use humour in public diplomacy (LSE Blog)
- QAnon Pivots Its Exiled Online Movement to the Real World (Wired)
Some light reading- A Brief History of Time, by Stephen Hawking