If you value equality and free competition on the internet, this should concern you. Without Net Neutrality, your ISP will be able to charge fees for websites like the cable companies do. Want Facebook and Instagram? You’ll have to pay extra for the “social” package. Want ESPN.com? Great, that’ll be $20 a month for the “sports” package. Want to start your own social media website? Too bad, you’re not part of a package so no one will visit your site. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/21/technology/fcc-net-neutrality.html

https://qz.com/1130687/stanford-trained-ai-to-diagnose-pneumonia-better-than-a-radiologist-in-just-two-months/

I think this is the scariest part of Artificial Intelligence – not the automation of jobs, but the potential for abuse by those in power: https://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21728614-machines-read-faces-are-coming-advances-ai-are-used-spot-signs

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/why-is-the-us-so-susceptible-to-social-media-distortion

We often think of digital as “permanent”, but is it really? What about my VHS tapes? https://xkcd.com/1909/

I feel like I always post dire warnings, so here is something great that people are doing with robots: https://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/humanoids/iros-2017-honda-unveils-prototype-e2dr-disaster-response-robot

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/608871/finally-a-driverless-car-with-some-common-sense

https://news.vice.com/story/indias-biometric-database-is-a-massive-achievement-and-a-dystopian-nightmare