The Covid pandemic has ignited another heated debate on who should be able to say what and to whom via digital platforms. Those in power hold the belief that unprecedented situations call for unprecedented reactions and strategies to keep people safe. Corporate media, platform owners, and governments are acting in…

Palantir is an American technology company that specializes in providing platforms for private companies and governments to mine and aggregate their own data and enable better decision making. The company was founded in 2003 by Peter Thiel and Alex Karp who met at Stanford Law School. Palantir was able to…

Over the last two decades the average person living in countries like Canada, The United States, and the United Kingdom has seen an exponential increase in the amount that they are surveilled. Surveillance is conducted on the general population through overt and covert tactics, from a proliferation of CCTV cameras…

Virginia Eubank’s Automating Inequality takes us through three cases in the United States where technology is being used by local governments to assist in making major decisions about peoples lives and well being. The first case is in Indiana where a system developed by IBM was put in place to…

Swift is a programming language created by Apple to develop applications for iOS and other Apple devices. Having launched in 2014 it is a relatively new language and is open source. Initially, Swift was released as a proprietary language for Apple and has since gone through many revisions. Swift allows…

Pacaso is an online real estate platform that allows multiple users to purchase portions of a home to be used as a second property. Pacaso purchases high end properties throughout the United States, turns them into an LLC, splits them up into shares, then allows users to purchase shares of…

Amidst a global pandemic and financial crisis, users of a sub-reddit called Wall Street Bets were able to challenge the power of the Wall Street establishment using technology that was readily available to them and strategies that were perviously reserved for groups with vast amounts of capital. The ethos of…

Due to the extremely top-secret nature of The Manhattan Project upon beomcing president learning about the project was a surprise to Harry S. Truman. The War in Europe was over with an Allied victory and pressure from the American public to bring the boys home was building, the only battles…

Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party controlled Germany from 1933–1945, within this short period of time is one of the darkest chapters in human history. Hitler and the Nazis were able to gain control of the country through dubious methods and once in power ruled the state as an authoritarian…