A Ted talk by Glenn Greenwald, who was one of the first reporters to see — and write about — the Edward Snowden files, with their revelations about the United States' extensive surveillance of private citizens. In this talk, Greenwald makes the case for why you need to care about privacy, even if you’re “not doing anything you need to hide."

Life 3.0 discusses Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its impact on the future of life on Earth and beyond. The book discusses a variety of societal implications, what can be done to maximize the chances of a positive outcome, and potential futures for humanity, technology and combinations thereof.

This article describes an emergent logic of accumulation in the networked sphere, ‘surveillance capitalism,’ and considers its implications for ‘information civilization.’

Melanie Swan writes about expanding the Human-Data Relation with Big Data. Big data is growing as an area of information technology, service, and science, and so too is the need for its intellectual understanding and interpretation from a theoretical, philosophical, and societal perspective.

This article is written by Dr Dominic Crutchley of Cambridge Consultant, one of the world's leading product development and technology consultancy firms. The article describes the expectations and challenges of Smart Dust.

This article of Maize magazine offers an interesting overview of the studies on smart dust.

A paper by Karen Li Xan Wong and Amy Shields Dobson on exploring China’s social credit system in relation to digital platform ratings cultures in Westernised democracies.

In this short article, Lewis Just writes about not just the social credit system that is known in China, but also similar systems that we see across the world.

Next Senses explores the unchartered territory of how we could experience the world with technology, and wonders if we have been doing this already.

This is an article from the journal "Computers in Human Behavior" on the moderating effect of ethics on neuralimplant acceptance.

Two very interesting papers on brain–computer interfacing technology and the ethics of neurosecurity.

This book aims to clarify current theological and philosophical dialogue on the posthuman by arguing that theologians must pay attention to which form of the posthuman they are engaging, and to demonstrate that a 'posthuman theology' is not only possible, but desirable, when the vision of the posthuman is one that coincides with a theological vision of the human.

In this talk, Hugh Herr details "NeuroEmbodied Design," a methodology for creating cyborg function that he's developing at the MIT Media Lab, and shows us a future where we've augmented our bodies in a way that will redefine human potential -- and, maybe, turn us into superheroes.

This is a book by the Swedish philosopher Nick Bostrom from the University of Oxford. It argues that if machine brains surpass human brains in general intelligence, then this new superintelligence could replace humans as the dominant lifeform on Earth.

An article written by Michael Brant, a American science writer, historian of science, founder of The Skeptics Society. Shermer engages in debates on topics pertaining to pseudoscience and religion in which he emphasizes scientific skepticism.

An article written by Phil Torres. His writing focuses on emerging technologies, apocalyptic ideologies, and existential risks. This article is a response to the article "Why Artificial Intelligence is Not an Existential Threat", by Michael Shermer. Phil Torres gives a clear overview of the dangers that superintelligence could bring.

A philosopher and technologist, Bostrom asks us to think hard about the world we're building right now, driven by thinking machines. Will our smart machines help to preserve humanity and our values — or will they have values of their own?