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?

Nigel Cameron

19 Sep 2018

Africa’s entrepreneurial revolution

Nigel Cameron

16 Aug 2018

Why replicating Silicon Valley is a fool’s game

Nigel Cameron

13 Aug 2018

How technology fired up flyover country

Nigel Cameron

07 Aug 2018

Are we breeding a future of discontent?

Nigel Cameron

25 Jul 2018

Why we should listen to the Luddites

Nigel Cameron

23 Jul 2018

Big tech is getting fat on corporate welfare

Nigel Cameron

12 Jul 2018

Clash of the Titans: Amazon takes on big pharma

Nigel Cameron

09 Jul 2018

The difference a fully automated farm would make

Nigel Cameron

02 Jul 2018

How liberal bias created Fox News

Nigel Cameron

25 Jun 2018

The government agency that made Silicon Valley

Nigel Cameron

18 Jun 2018

Six tough biotech challenges for the 21st century

Nigel Cameron

15 Jun 2018

The existential risks of AI

Nigel Cameron

29 May 2018

A way to make our Facebook data pay

Nigel Cameron

25 May 2018

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

Nigel Cameron

17 May 2018

How for-profit colleges are cheating flyover America

Nigel Cameron

15 May 2018

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

Nigel Cameron

10 May 2018

Slaying dragons: Britain’s national religion, the NHS

Nigel Cameron

27 Apr 2018

Online lettings – where desperate need meets scammers’ greed

Nigel Cameron

21 Apr 2018

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

Nigel Cameron

13 Apr 2018

Social media. What are we to do?

Nigel Cameron

03 Apr 2018

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

Nigel Cameron

23 Feb 2018

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

Nigel Cameron

19 Feb 2018

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

Nigel Cameron

13 Feb 2018

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

Nigel Cameron

11 Dec 2017

Who will win space?

Nigel Cameron

05 Dec 2017

How to be a digital consumer

Nigel Cameron

28 Nov 2017

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

Nigel Cameron

20 Nov 2017

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

Nigel Cameron

13 Nov 2017

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

Nigel Cameron

06 Nov 2017

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

Nigel Cameron

01 Nov 2017

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

Nigel Cameron

31 Oct 2017

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

Nigel Cameron

26 Oct 2017

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

Nigel Cameron

26 Oct 2017

(2/10) Pay your fair share of taxes

Nigel Cameron

26 Oct 2017

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

Nigel Cameron

26 Oct 2017

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

Nigel Cameron

26 Oct 2017

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

Nigel Cameron

26 Oct 2017

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

Nigel Cameron

26 Oct 2017

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

Nigel Cameron

26 Oct 2017

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

Nigel Cameron

26 Oct 2017

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

Nigel Cameron

26 Oct 2017

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

Nigel Cameron

26 Oct 2017

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

Nigel Cameron

09 Oct 2017

Are machines going to care for our most vulnerable?

Nigel Cameron

20 Sep 2017

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

Nigel Cameron

11 Sep 2017

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

Nigel Cameron

31 Aug 2017

Is the media misreporting the genetic revolution?

Nigel Cameron

24 Aug 2017

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

Nigel Cameron

01 Aug 2017

Trump trumps the tech news

Nigel Cameron

22 Jul 2017