Thinking global, living local: Voices in a globalized world

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  • The Internet – A Tool of Power and Control

    The world has discovered much over the course of time and people have evolved much more sophisticated social organs. However, the tendency for people never to fully trust each other has also increased over the course of history. Look at history and we are sure to notice a pattern of conspiracies and biased […]

  • The Social Pipeline: Identity within the Global Village

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    All  articles you read, videos you watch, posts you tweet and things you like can now automatically be reposted to all your online profiles, creating a social pipeline. In China, activists use this method of mass propagation to fight against the amnesia that strikes their posts when deleted by censorship. But at the […]

  • The Silence of the Digital Sheep

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    Pakistan is a country that has lagged behind the developed world in information and technology for as long as we Pakistanis can remember. Yes, we’ve even lagged behind the United States, which has some of the slowest internet connections in the entire ‘Western World’ and still sports Dial-Up internet – […]

  • Affording Apathy

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    The first inklings of sound come from utter, complete silence, the first true appreciation of light only after complete, all-encompassing darkness. Therefore, following from that, only from violent, discordant and overwhelming chaos should order arise from.

  • When Our Technology Is Used Against Us

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    Is the world better off with cell phones? What about the Internet? These might seem like obvious questions. Sure, the rise of cell phones can be annoying when other people’s conversations disturb our peace and quiet, and the rise of the internet makes it harder for us to shelter our […]