We never imagined that economic and societal survival during COVID-19 would depend so dearly on our digital backbone. In this article, Melissa Hathaway discusses the vulnerabilities in our digital infrastructure and how they were revealed by a global pandemic.
Zoonoses are responsible for about 60 percent of infectious diseases in humans. In this article, Jean Lebel considers how COVID-19 and other animal-transmitted diseases might be a sign of a deteriorating relationship with the natural environment.
Technology theatre refers to the use of technology interventions that make people feel as if a government is solving a problem — even when the problem is not being solved at all. Sean McDonald explains.
Some of the pandemic's damages — as traumatic and painful as they are — will be relatively short-lived. Other consequences, as Hongying Wang writes, will have much longer-term influence, on societies and international relations alike.
Data generates massive rents, fuels the rise of superstar firms and generates powerful incentives for strategic trade and investment policy. In this paper, Dan Ciuriak considers how the digital transformation will reshape the rules-based system of international commerce.
Because of near-constant data sharing and collection, our ability to retain authorship over the way we project ourselves is at risk. With this in mind, Sylvie Delcroix calls for the creation of a new profession: the data trustee.
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