From New Dawn Special Issue Vol 15 No 1 (Feb 2021) Life-changing events are a frequent occurrence in politics and economics. Recent examples include the assassination of US President John F. Kennedy (JFK) in 1963, the events of 11 September […]
Dr Tim Coles
Making Social Media Work for You
From New Dawn Special Issue Vol 16 No 1 (Feb 2022) You are the product. Your personal data are sold to brokers and advertisers against your informed consent to profit the uber-rich, like Facebook’s (now “Meta”) co-founder, Mark Zuckerberg.1 But […]
When a Vaccine is Not a Vaccine and a Test is Not a Test
From New Dawn Special Issue Vol 16 No 1 (Feb 2022) In his classic novel Nineteen Eighty-four, author Eric Blair (better known as George Orwell), famously laid out how a totalitarian technocracy would look. The phrase Orwellian has justifiably become […]
Life in the Post-Covid World Order
From New Dawn Special Issue Vol 15 No 6 (Dec 2021) In Brave New World, author Aldous Huxley wrote that the slaves of the future are happy. Drugged and genetically modified, their personalities are blunted and their bodies and minds […]
Meet Your New Biotech Overlords; How Covid Has Ushered in the Next Generation of Digital Control
From New Dawn 187 (Jul-Aug 2021) A few years ago, commentators argued that “data is the new oil”:1 a precious commodity that makes the world go ‘round. Instead of wars for control over natural resources, à la Iraq, Libya, and Syria, […]