Articles
What is the Programmable Economy?
In the future programmable economy, centralized forces will be decentralized through technologies like blockchain and vice versa—data becomes big data.
Hannah Sloan
Human Rights and IoT: The Right to Fair and Decent Work
Human rights are about what makes for a good and flourishing human life. As automation transforms our lives, human rights provide an important framework.
Hannah Sloan
Human Rights and IoT: The Right to Privacy
Privacy is a human rights issue. IoT and AI have major privacy concerns. But used responsibly, these technologies could even support the right to privacy.
Hannah Sloan
Human Rights and IoT: Tracking Violations and Improving Protections
When physical systems are connected to the Internet, there’s also more opportunity to record, document, and verify human rights violations.
Hannah Sloan
Human Rights and IoT: The Machine and the Agent
As IoT systems take on more power to affect (and potentially harm) the world around them, the need for a “programmable morality” only grows stronger.
Hannah Sloan
What Is the Passenger Economy?
The passenger economy emerges when autonomous vehicles promote new kinds of markets, industries and ways of operating in those industries.
Hannah Sloan
How IoT Can Help “Govern” Conservation Efforts
IoT and blockchain could help us better govern and monitor our environmental impact, coordinating economic development with environmental conservation.
Hannah Sloan
How IoT Impacts the Economy
It’s hard to measure the economic impact of IoT. While it's largely advanced economies who stand to gain, strategic developing economies will benefit.
Hannah Sloan
Automation and Autocracy: IoT and the Future of Democracy
Technology in politics can be used either to sustain or to thwart democracy. IoT- and automation-enabled surveillance in China and Italy are grim warnings.
Hannah Sloan
How IoT is Changing the Face of Factories Worldwide
Factory automation is generating valuable data around processes allowing IoT systems to improve processes intelligently and sustainably quickly.
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