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• 10 min
• New York Times
• 2019

Racial bias in facial recognition software used for Government Civil Surveillance in Detroit. Racially biased technology. Diminishes agency of minority groups and enhances latent human bias.

• Civil Surveillance
• Algorithmic Bias
• Computer Vision
• Data Streaming

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• 11 min
• Kinolab
• 2015

During a manned mission to Mars, Astronaut Mark Watney is presumed dead after a fierce storm and left behind by his crew. But Watney has survived and finds himself stranded and alone on the hostile planet. With only meager supplies, he must draw upon his ingenuity, wit and spirit to subsist and find a way to signal to Earth that he is alive. Communication between Earth and space happens primarily through data streaming methods, such as video chats or satellite broadcasts. In the second part of this narrative, countries across the globe, specifically the U.S and China, work together to engineer a plan to get Mark Watney back on board the Hermes ship. While there are complications, Mark is eventually reunited with his crew.

• Global Impact of Technology
• Scientific Innovation
• Data Streaming

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• 13 min
• Kinolab
• 2002

In the year 2054, the PreCrime police program is about to go national. At PreCrime, three clairvoyant humans known as “PreCogs” are able to forecast future murders by streaming audiovisual data which provides the surrounding details of the crime, including the names of the victims and perpetrators. Although there are no cameras, the implication is that anyone can be under constant surveillance by this program. Once the “algorithm” has gleaned enough data about the future crime, officers move out to stop the murder before it happens.

• Civil Surveillance
• Predictive Policing
• Machine Learning
• Biometrics
• Data Streaming

• 
• 9 min
• Kinolab
• 2002

In the year 2054, the PreCrime police program is about to go national. At PreCrime, three clairvoyant humans known as “PreCogs” are able to forecast future murders by streaming audiovisual data which provides the surrounding details of the crime, including the names of the victims and perpetrators. Although there are no cameras, the implication is that anyone can be under constant surveillance by this program. Once the “algorithm” has gleaned enough data about the future crime, officers move out to stop the murder before it happens. In this narrative, the PreCrime program is audited, and the officers must explain the ethics and philosophies at play behind their systems. After captain John Anderton is accused of a future crime, he flees, and learns of “minority reports,” or instances of disagreement between the Precogs covered up by the department to make the justice system seem infallible.

• Civil Surveillance
• Predictive Policing
• Machine Learning
• Data Streaming

• 
• 9 min
• Kinolab
• 2016

Eleanor Shellstrop, a deceased selfish woman, ended up in the utopic afterlife The Good Place by mistake after her death. She spins an elaborate web of lies to ensure that she is not sent to be tortured in The Bad Place. In this narrative, the demons of the Bad Place try to wrest Eleanor’s soul away from the Good Place by convincing her that this is where she truly belongs. This resonates with Eleanor, who was always a lone wolf and never found a community of people who she liked. Ultimately, though, she fights to stay in the Good Place because of the fondness she has for the community of people who she knows there.

• Fundamental Ethics
• Networks

• 
• 6 min
• Kinolab
• 2019

In an imagined future of London, citizens all across the globe are connected to the Feed, a device and network accessed constantly through a brain-computer interface. Kate Hatfield, a new mother, discovers that someone has hacked into the device in her head, and thus was able to access some of her lived memories. Later, the culprit of this hack is revealed to be her father-in-law Lawrence, who was attempting to implant the Feed into Bea, the new baby.

• Data Privacy
• Edited Humans
• Brain-Computer Interfaces
• Networks