Nigel Cameron

Nigel Cameron writes about technology, society, and the future. In 2007 he founded the Washington think tank The Center for Policy on Emerging Technologies. His most recent book is Will Robots Take Your Job?

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Nigel Cameron writes about technology, society, and the future. In 2007 he founded the Washington think tank The Center for Policy on Emerging Technologies. His most recent book is Will Robots Take Your Job?

Who wants to live forever?

BY Nigel Cameron / 4 mins

Africa’s entrepreneurial revolution

BY Nigel Cameron / 4 mins

Why replicating Silicon Valley is a fool’s game

BY Nigel Cameron / 4 mins

How technology fired up flyover country

BY Nigel Cameron / 4 mins

Are we breeding a future of discontent?

BY Nigel Cameron / 4 mins

Why we should listen to the Luddites

BY Nigel Cameron / 4 mins

Big tech is getting fat on corporate welfare

BY Nigel Cameron / 3 mins

Clash of the Titans: Amazon takes on big pharma

BY Nigel Cameron / 3 mins

The difference a fully automated farm would make

BY Nigel Cameron / 3 mins

How liberal bias created Fox News

BY Nigel Cameron / 5 mins

The government agency that made Silicon Valley

BY Nigel Cameron / 6 mins

Six tough biotech challenges for the 21st century

BY Nigel Cameron / 3 mins

The existential risks of AI

BY Nigel Cameron / 5 mins

A way to make our Facebook data pay

BY Nigel Cameron / 4 mins

Why aren’t we more worried about the new slave economy?

BY Nigel Cameron / 3 mins

How for-profit colleges are cheating flyover America

BY Nigel Cameron / 4 mins

Mission to make money: a new space race is taking off

BY Nigel Cameron / 5 mins

Slaying dragons: Britain’s national religion, the NHS

BY Nigel Cameron / 3 mins

Online lettings – where desperate need meets scammers’ greed

BY Nigel Cameron / 5 mins

How a ‘Tech Shabbat’ could solve our social media woes

BY Nigel Cameron / 5 mins

Social media. What are we to do?

BY Nigel Cameron / 4 mins

Jeff Bezos eats Whole Foods. What’s he up to?

BY Nigel Cameron / 4 mins

Free minds: Sherry Turkle – humanity’s advocate against the machine

BY Nigel Cameron / 6 mins

China has turned the internet into a tool of complete citizen control

BY Nigel Cameron / 4 mins

‘Science Finds, Industry Applies, Man Conforms.’ But should it?

BY Nigel Cameron / 5 mins

Who will win space?

BY Nigel Cameron / 4 mins

How to be a digital consumer

BY Nigel Cameron / 5 mins

How will life be different in the smart cities of the future?

BY Nigel Cameron / 5 mins

Smart cities sound amazing, but will we be ready for a cyber 9/11?

BY Nigel Cameron / 3 mins

An anti-Muslim demonstration in Texas was just traced back to the Kremlin. What’s next?

BY Nigel Cameron / 4 mins

The jobs that survive computerisation will require a human touch. Are we still teaching that?

BY Nigel Cameron / 7 mins

Google, Amazon, Facebook: It’s time to smash Silicon Valley monopolies

BY Nigel Cameron / 8 mins

An open letter to the guy with two billion Facebook friends – and an eye on the White House

BY Nigel Cameron / 6 mins

(1/10) Stop behaving like a monopolist – you’ve got enough money, after all

BY Nigel Cameron / 5 mins

(2/10) Pay your fair share of taxes

BY Nigel Cameron / 2 mins

(3/10) You are taking a lot out of the news industry – perhaps it’s time to put more than a little something back?

BY Nigel Cameron / 3 mins

(4/10) Make Facebook (the Company) look less like 1950s Mad Men

BY Nigel Cameron / 4 mins

(5/10) Put free speech before profiting in China, Russia and other censorious regimes

BY Nigel Cameron / 2 mins

(6/10) Do more to help the fight against terror

BY Nigel Cameron / 2 mins

(7/10) Make Facebook a lot more child-friendly

BY Nigel Cameron / 4 mins

(8/10) Poverty in Silicon Valley. How can you solve the nation’s problems if you don’t address those on your own doorstep?

BY Nigel Cameron / 2 mins

(9/10) Slow down. You don’t need to be President for a decade or two

BY Nigel Cameron / 2 mins

(10/10) Will you reverse the concentration of power in your tech sector?

BY Nigel Cameron / 4 mins

The world of killer robots is coming. Can we control this ultimate weapon?

BY Nigel Cameron / 4 mins

Are machines going to care for our most vulnerable?

BY Nigel Cameron / 6 mins

With robots likely to take so many jobs we need to retire earlier, not later

BY Nigel Cameron / 5 mins

Robots will take many of today’s jobs and tomorrow’s jobs? They’ll be dominated by women

BY Nigel Cameron / 5 mins

Is the media misreporting the genetic revolution?

BY Nigel Cameron / 8 mins

Don’t go South, Mr President: Go West!*

BY Nigel Cameron / 4 mins

Trump trumps the tech news

BY Nigel Cameron / 5 mins