Social Cooling - Big Data's long term side-effect

Big Data’s Radical Potential

Today, big data is used to boost profits and spy on civilians. But what if it was harnessed for the social good?

The Gargantuan Lie That is Collapsing The World’s Climate

Thinking we have time left to address climate change, or that “Net Zero by 2050” will save us, is driving us toward full social collapse in ways that become more obvious with every new broken temperature record.

'Data is the new oil': Your personal information is now the world's most valuable commodity | CBC News

Data has surpassed oil as the world's most valuable resource, much of it controlled by just five mega-companies — and jurisdictions are struggling with how to contain, regulate and protect all those ones and zeros.

How statistics lost their power – and why we should fear what comes next | William Davies

The Long Read: The ability of statistics to accurately represent the world is declining. In its wake, a new age of big data controlled by private companies is taking over – and putting democracy in peril

Technological Optimism and the Unspoken Abandonment of Paris

On 7 October 2026, The Guardian published an article titled Scientists who put faith in technology are less likely to take climate action. The article reported on a study by the London School of Economics, which surveyed more than 9,000 scientists across 115 countries about their views on whether technology will largely solve the problems caused by climate change. The findings suggested that scientists expressing greater faith in technological solutions were less likely to engage in civic action or make significant changes to their own lifestyles.

Majority of US voters link extreme weather to climate crisis, study finds

Top Democrat says findings show public ‘way ahead of the politicians’ as Trump dismisses global heating as ‘hoax’

One billion people will live in insufferable heat within 50 years – study

Human cost of climate crisis will hit harder and sooner than previously believed, research reveals

China’s plan to organize its society relies on ‘big data’ to rate everyone

The Communist Party wants to harness vast troves of online data to score people and companies on their behavior.

What's Really Warming the World?

What's Really Warming the World? Climate deniers blame natural factors; NASA data proves otherwise

It’s 90 degrees in the Arctic right now

The Arctic is heating faster than the rest of the planet. New data illustrate how dire that is

Digital Socialism?

What opportunities does the new feedback infrastructure of data capitalism offer for non-market forms of social coordination? Hayek and the Calculation Debate revisited in the age of big data.

Global Warming Is Rapidly Accelerating, New Paper Finds

A new study found the first statistically significant evidence that global warming is ramping up at a horrifying rate.

It's time to retire metrics like GDP. They don't measure everything that matters | Joseph Stiglitz

The way we assess economic performance and social progress is fundamentally wrong, and the climate crisis has brought these concerns to the fore

Is “Big Data” racist? Why policing by data isn’t necessarily objective

Concerns with predictive big data technologies appear in most big data policing models."

Living in Data: A Citizen's Guide to a Better Information Future (Paperback)

Jer Thorp’s analysis of the word “data” in 10,325 New York Times stories written between 1984 and 2018 shows a distinct trend: among the words most closely associated with “data,” we find not only its classic companions “information” and “digital,” but also a variety of new neighbors—from “scandal” and “misinformation” to “ethics,” “friends,” and “play.”To live in data in the twenty-first century