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The Engine Room"Responsible Data in Agriculture" provides a broad overview of responsible data challenges facing private and public sector actors, with a focus on the power imbalance between actors, and looks into how that inequality affects behavior when it comes to the agricultural data ecosystem. Read on The Engine RoomSeptember 2016 -
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Data & Society"The Wisdom of the Captured" analyzes how widely captured data of technologies, which enable these technologies to make intelligent decisions, may negatively impact users. Read moreSeptember 2016 -
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O’ReillyAuthors Nick Grossman and Elizabeth Woyke explore how changes in the workplace bundle are drawing more and more people into the part-time labor force, aka the "gig economy," including traditional freelancers, craftspeople, independent contractors, micro-entrepreneurs, and shift workers. Read on O’ReillyOctober 2015 -
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Data & SocietyWhat will happen to current regimes of liability when driverless cars become commercially available? What happens when there is no human actor—only a computational agent—responsible for an accident? "Praise the Machine! Punish the Human!" addresses these questions by examining the historical emergence and response to autopilot and cruise control. Read moreFebruary 2015