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. Americans widely distrust Facebook, TikTok and Instagram with data, poll finds (The Washington Post)
2. The Metaverse already has a groping problem (MIT Technology Review)
3. How America Can Keep Its Lead in Technology (Wall Street Journal)
4. Why China’s Advancements in Quantum Technology Worry Others (Voice of America)
5. The benefits and risks of new tech will decide the future (Axios)
6. Natural History, Not Technology, Will Dictate Our Destiny (Wired)
7. Interoperable, agile, and balanced: Rethinking technology policy and governance for the 21st century (Brookings)
8. The 65-second attention span: Technology has stolen our ability to focus (The Irish Times)
9. All’s Abuzz on the Digital Front (The Jerusalem Post)

Some light reading- Brighter than a Thousand Suns: A History of the Atomic Scientists, by Robert Jungk