Winter 2021 - Issue 4

Slower News Quarterly

Winter arrived.

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These were the articles added in the Autumn:

democracy

• EU message and chat control.

• Germany's new government plans «right to encryption» and ban on biometric mass surveillance.

• Algocracy¹

health

• Bioartificial kidney.

• Pig kidney has been successfully transplanted into a human.

sports

• Soccer is not a sport anymore.²

beliefs and ethics

• First statue in honor of bitcoin creator.³

reduce, reuse, recycle

• Apple announces self service repair.

ecology and climate

• The dream of carbon air capture edges toward reality.⁴

urbanism

• Crypto cities.⁵

transports

• Klimaticket.⁶

drones, robotics and ai

• Autonomous boats seem more solvable than autonomous cars.

• Autonomous drone navigates through the forest at 40 km/h.

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1. DAOs (Decentralized Autonomous Organization) will be, most likely, the future of Democracy.

2. It’s a money and reputation washing industry.

3. A new God.

4. Deprecates existing articles on this subject.

5. Updates the «smart city».

6. A bit of wishful thinking.