Metadata Is Power
Why Protecting the Contents of a Message Is No Longer Enough
My illustration entitled: "The Digital Breadcrumb Trail" - I walk through a dark futuristic city, unknowingly leaving glowing footprints beh...
Without Equality, Human Enhancement Will Create a New Caste System
For most of modern history, physical advantage has been mediated indirectly — through nutrition, healthcare, education, workplace safety, and (at the extreme) performance-enhancing drugs. Emerging biomedical ...
The Four Foundations of Economic Capability: Value, Ownership, Knowledge and Choice
My illustration entitled: "The Four Pillars" - Four monumental pillars engraved with Value, Ownership, Knowledge, and Choice supporting an open civic marketplace.
Economic freedom is not secured merely...
Morphological Freedom: The Right to Shape and Upgrade the Human Body
Above is my illustration featuring a scientist wearing a brain-computer interface (Neurochip); he is behind an animal-human hybrid spliced with tiger DNA, and a bionic woman with robotic mechanical parts.
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Cryptography Is Applied Freedom
Why Mathematics Must Protect the Freedoms Institutions Cannot Always Guarantee
Above is my illustration entitled: "The Bridge Beyond Permission". A vast chasm separates citizens from communication, com...
The Ethics of Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems
Referencing that of Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011), I attempt to illustrate 'Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems', portraying Optimus Prime as an artificial intelligence killer robot. And of course, fe...
The Economics of Everyday Exoskeletons: When Will They Become Affordable?
In my illustration above, featuring a female mechanic equipped with exoskeleton mechanical arms that enables her to have superhuman strength.
Exoskeletons — once the stuff of comics and summer blockbus...
Privacy Is Sovereignty
Why Control Over Disclosure Is Essential to Human Freedom in the Digital Age
In my illustration entitled "The Data Shadow Reclaimed" - A citizen’s enormous digital shadow—formed from messages, purchase...