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Digital Age

Civil rights

“PREVENTING AN INTERNET CRASH: CONSERVING PRECIOUS BANDWIDTH!“

By Hazel Henderson* – Ethical Markets Media Now everyone and every organization on the planet is going virtual, we can observe some simple rules and etiquette in all our online communications, so as to preserve our internet and ensure priority access for our children trying…

Digital Age

Bill Gates’s Charity Paradox

By Tim Schwab* – The Nation Bill Gates Gives to the Rich (Including Himself). His renowned charitable activities seem to serve mainly private interests, namely his own. A Nation investigation illustrates the moral hazards surrounding the Gates Foundation’s $50 billion…

Commerce

The EU wants to set the rules for the world of technology

The Economist After data protection, artificial intelligence, competition and more. The Brussels effect, cont BERLIN AND SAN FRANCISCO – MARK ZUCKERBERG might not have liked everything he heard, but Facebook’s boss got the timing right for a recent visit to Brussels.

Digital Age

Technology Can't Fix Algorithmic Injustice

Annette Zimmermann, Elena Di Rosa, Hochan Kim – Boston Review We need greater democratic oversight of AI not just from developers and designers, but from all members of society. A great deal of recent public debate about artificial intelligence has been driven by apocalyptic…

Corruption

Corporate Social Responsibility Is a Sham

Reich* – Newsweek Boeing recently fired CEO Dennis Muilenburg in order “to restore confidence in the Company moving forward as it works to repair relationships with regulators, customers, and all other stakeholders.” Restore confidence? Muilenburg’s successor will be David…

Children

“Steering Our Powers of Persuasion Toward Our Human Future”

Hazel Henderson* – Ethical Markets Media  The 18th century enclosure of our planet’s common natural resources that fueled the rise of capitalism began in Britain and was described by Karl Polanyi in the Great Transformation (1946).   I explored in depth all the…

Corruption

Trump 'going crazy' over impeachment legacy

By MERIDITH MCGRAW and DANIEL LIPPMAN – POLITICO Years from now, impeachment will be one of the first things students are taught about the 45th president Real estate mogul, billionaire, reality show host, late-night show punch line, populist rabble rouser, norm-busting leader —…

Civil Society

“MARKETS’ GROWING PROBLEM TWINS: ADVERTISING AND TRADING“

By Hazel Henderson* – ETHICAL MARKETS MEDIA Markets are ubiquitous in all human societies.  Since earliest times, when they were conducted using shells, wampum, cattle, or in rituals and potlatches, markets evolved using metal coins, silver and gold, then paper…