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Beyond The Corporate Responsibility To Respect Human Rights In The Dawn Of A Metaverse, Kuzi Charamba
Beyond The Corporate Responsibility To Respect Human Rights In The Dawn Of A Metaverse, Kuzi Charamba
University of Miami International and Comparative Law Review
Technological advances in the 21st century pose new threats to human rights from business activities. In this new technological age, individuals and communities engage through an increasing myriad of digital means and platforms, all facilitated by a smaller, more powerful set of global BigTech companies, such as Microsoft, Apple, Google, and Meta (formerly known as Facebook). In so doing, however, our lives as workers, consumers, and citizens become subject to increasing corporate control through surveillance capitalism and algorithmic governance. With the dawn of metaverses—3D immersive digital environments in which you can interact with others via avatars and through virtual and …
Toward Sustainable Smart Cities: Concepts & Challenges, Nabila Al-Ghabra
Toward Sustainable Smart Cities: Concepts & Challenges, Nabila Al-Ghabra
Architecture and Planning Journal (APJ)
The world’s urban population is growing enormously, increasing of energy usage, air toxicity, and traffic congestion in urban areas which need a furthermost effective way for solutions. Smart city as a solution is expected to solve the functionality of urban systems. It needs to improve ICT infrastructure as an authoritative, adaptable, accessible, secure, and flexible one, and improve the quality of daily lifetime, refine citizen’s healthiness as well to achieve economic growth and develop the physical infrastructure services to promote sustainable development. This research is a narrative review, kind of methodological approach presented as open research and structured as follows: …
The Fundamental Problem Of Regulating Technology, Hon. Justice Michael Kirby Ac Cmg
The Fundamental Problem Of Regulating Technology, Hon. Justice Michael Kirby Ac Cmg
Indian Journal of Law and Technology
Scientific breakthroughs and the ceaseless pace of technological innovation touch a diverse range of subject matter, with the most profound changes often proving to be the most controversial. Recent decades have seen the fields of biotechnology and information technology raise the most attention, with the deliberations of lawmakers and courts being increasingly focused on issues brought up by innovation within these fields. Though seemingly disparate and autonomous, given the wide range of issues brought up by the different facets of contemporary technological innovation, the author in this special comment presents how one can take an overview of the subject of …
Climate Change: The Role Of Technology, "Dominon," And Our Pastoral Responsibility, Leah Wakefield
Climate Change: The Role Of Technology, "Dominon," And Our Pastoral Responsibility, Leah Wakefield
Obsculta
This paper briefly examines the correlation between burning fossil fuels, the increase of carbon in the atmosphere and resulting volatile weather, including hurricanes and floods. The paper then discusses possible technological solutions, including carbon dioxide scrubbers. Finally, the paper critically examines Genesis 2:15 and 1:26 and uses Laudato Si’ to reframe our understanding of “dominion” over the earth as a responsibility that calls for us to work to end climate change.
Witnessed From The Justice Bus: Covid Drove Equal Justice Off The Road, But Technology Grabbed The Wheel And Is Steering Us Into The Future, Jude Schmit, Rachel Albertson
Witnessed From The Justice Bus: Covid Drove Equal Justice Off The Road, But Technology Grabbed The Wheel And Is Steering Us Into The Future, Jude Schmit, Rachel Albertson
Mitchell Hamline Law Review
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