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Digital Native: Playing God: by Nishant Shah — published Sep 04, 2018 — filed under: Researchers at Work, Digital Natives
Google’s home assistant can make you feel deceptively God-like as it listens to every command of yours. It is a device that never sleeps, and always listens, waiting for a voice to utter “Ok Google” to jump into life.
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Digital Native: One Selfie Does a Tragedy Make: by Nishant Shah — published Nov 11, 2018 — last modified Dec 05, 2018 02:20 AM — filed under: Researchers at Work, Digital Natives
The great find of this century – life’s worth just a selfie. Channeling the inner narcissus is now human hamartia.
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Across Borders: by Nishant Shah — published Jul 11, 2012 — last modified Apr 24, 2015 11:55 AM — filed under: Researchers at Work, Digital Natives
A friend and I were at a cafe in Bangalore the other day, when an acquaintance walked in. After the initial niceties, and invitation to join us for coffee, the new person looked at us and asked a question that sounded so archaic and so unexpected that we had no answers for it: How do you two know each other? This innocuous question threw us both off the loop because we didn’t have an immediate answer.
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Digital Native: AI Manifesto: by Nishant Shah — published Feb 25, 2018 — last modified Mar 17, 2018 11:02 AM — filed under: Researchers at Work
Our intention and government action will determine our relationship with AI.
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Digital native: Our lonely connected lives: by Nishant Shah — published Mar 25, 2018 — filed under: Researchers at Work
Even as the UK last month announced the appointment of Minister of Loneliness, which sounds more like the title of the next Arundhati Roy novel, it is worth examining why we are so alone in the age of hyperconnectivity.
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Digital Native: A new road to justice: by Nishant Shah — published Mar 25, 2018 — filed under: Researchers at Work
Making the List takes courage and strength. It involves the formation of a new collective of care.
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Digital Native: How free is the internet?: by Nishant Shah — published Aug 18, 2019 — last modified Sep 04, 2019 01:47 AM — filed under: Researchers at Work
It is contradictory and confusing as it amplifies as well as destabilises the order of things.
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Kashmir’s digital blackout marks a period darker than the dark side of the moon: by Nishant Shah — published Sep 26, 2019 — filed under: Researchers at Work
While we mourn the loss of connection with the moon, remembering a digital blackout closer home.
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Facial recognition at airports promises convenience in exchange for surveillance: by Nishant Shah — published Oct 20, 2019 — last modified Nov 02, 2019 07:07 AM
If smart technology is promising you a few hours of convenience, what is it asking you to sign away?
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India’s proposed new internet bill is as repressive as the worst of Chinese laws: by Nishant Shah — published Feb 04, 2019 — filed under: Researchers at Work
The proposed new internet bill is as repressive as the worst of Chinese restrictions. The new intermediaries liability and content monitoring act that will become a law in February, unquestioningly expand the remit of the government.
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