A critical look at our shape-shifting world and how we're learning to adapt: the new technologies, new approaches and new responses arising from rapid change.
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AI's "hidden labour" and the move toward a linkless internet
Artificial intelligence, it turns out, has a heavy human backend — they're called "data labellers"; they mostly live in developing countries, and there are ethical questions about their pay and work conditions.
Published: with Antony Funnell
Modern museums, accountability, and openness
The Victoria and Albert Museum in London is opening-up its storeroom, turning the back end of the operation into a public resource. It's about attracting new patrons, but it's also about accountability, the Museum's managers have declared.
Published: with Antony Funnell
The way teenage girls speak is often derided, but they are in fact our linguistic trailblazers
Teenage girls are the main accelerators of how language changes and evolves. It's a reminder that the most influential people in our society aren't always the most obvious.
Published: by Fiona Pepper and Antony Funnell
As everyday people struggle with the cost of living, this group of millionaires is begging to pay more tax
As some company CEOs are receiving a salary more than 50 times higher than the average employee's, even the rich are starting to say it's time to rein in their wealth.
Published: by Fiona Pepper and Antony Funnell
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