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• 7 min
• Singularity Hub
• 2018

New inventions which help study or improve brain functions will hopefully become more democratized and obtainable down the road, despite being currently expensive. Machines such as wearable MRIs or Brain-Machine Interfaces ideally simplify invasive medical procedures, and provide hopes for recovery from afflictions such as strokes or depression.

• Assistive Technologies
• Scientific Innovation
• Accessibility Technologies
• Brain-Computer Interfaces

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• 15 min
• The App Solutions

Overview of recommender systems, which are information filtering algorithms design to suggest content or products to a particular user.

• Data Privacy
• Technology Based Entertainment and Leisure
• Recommender Systems
• Data Mining

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• 30 min
• Wired
• 2019

In China, “supercompanies” such as WeChat or Alipay aggregate massive amounts of varied data on users. The Zhima Credit score system directly influences the agency of users by limiting their options in acting in their environment, or determining with whom they interact. The Chinese government interests itself with allying with large tech companies to incorporate a social ranking system which can be used to control and suppress citizens. Although the United States does not have “supercompanies” like those mentioned from China, the large companies that collect user data in the US certainly have the same potential to limit human agency.

• Data Privacy
• Governing Technologies
• Data Mining
• Digital Cash

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• 5 min
• Wired
• 2019

Monster Match, a game funded by Mozilla, shows how dating app algorithms are reinforcing bias through combining personal and mass aggregated data to systematically hide a vast number of profiles from user sight, effectively caging users into narrow preferences.

• Technology Based Entertainment and Leisure
• Algorithmic Bias
• Machine Learning
• Social Networks

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• 11 min
• Kinolab
• 1993

Geordie uses a brain-computer interface, which projects his consciousness into a mobile avatar controlled by his neural impulses, to explore distant ships. This humanoid avatar is able to perform tasks that go beyond human capabilities, such as shooting phaser beams from the hands. However, upon discovering the dead crew of the Raman, it is revealed that the lines separating his virtual reality and true reality are blurred.

• Assistive Technologies
• Edited Humans
• Brain-Computer Interfaces
• Mixed Reality

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• 2 min
• Kinolab
• 1990

With his homing signal activated, the android Data takes control of the USS Enterprise and its systems and blocks the human crew from stopping him. For further reading, see the narrative Triton is the world’s most murderous malware, and it’s spreading.

• Cyber Crime
• Workplace Safety
• Internet of Things
• Robots