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# tech
What's holding the tech giants back from addressing racists and bigots trying to overrun their platforms isn't the limits of their technology. It's fear.
# tech
Techno-utopians sold a world on the narrative that the web was built for a free exchange of information. But that's never actually been true...
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Foreign policy wonks want tech companies to battle censorship with the devices they sell to foreign countries. Unfortunately, they can't defeat math, even for a noble cause.
# science
Despite the bad rap technocrats get, they're absolutely needed to keep dogma and blind faith from hijacking the day to day working of governments.
# politics
Living under constant surveillance does have some benefits like deterring crime and catching frauds and cheats, argues Charles Kenny.
# space
Planetary scientists who want to study plants other than Mars and very unhappy with what they see as NASA's obsession with the red planet.
# science
Too many of the lawmakers who sit on the House Science and Technology Committee are the absolute worst people to be on such a committee.
# politics
Two afflictions shared by a majority of the public are dragging down our advancements as a civilization and a species.
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There's a fine line between being an expert trying to simplify a complex topic and an arrogant snob lecturing down to your audience. TED's all-stars are starting to cross that line.
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A popular philosophical objection to life extension is that it would allow terrible people to live longer. The problem is that there will always be terrible people.