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Political-style cartoon of Victorian machine, with brain tech, cyborg potatoes and solar radiation management pollution
ARIA: The UK's dubious 'deep tech' agency
In 2025 a new ‘high risk-high reward’ agency funded by the UK Government began bankrolling outdoor solar geoengineering experiments, in direct contravention of agreed international moratoria and norms. We decided to take a closer look. 20 Mar 2026
farmer drought microchip production
Behind Sugar and Spice and Everything Nice
The Environmental Impacts of Digitalization 9 May 2024
Is the UN Convention on Biodiversity losing the precautionary plot?
9 Nov 2022

Reports on Other technologies

Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA) report front cover
ARIA: The UK's dubious 'deep tech' agency
Report cover for Behind Sugar and Spice report
Behind Sugar and Spice and Everything Nice
Gene Drive Organisms
Forcing the Farm
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Small urban farm with blue earthquake fissure superimposed.
#WorldFoodDay2020
Who will control food and farming by the end of the decade? 16 Oct 2020
Driven to Extinction
Bill Gates and Gene Drive Extinction Technology 14 Oct 2020
#5: Algorithmic Colonisation with Abeba Birhane
Is there such a thing as "ethical AI"? 18 Sep 2020
Butterfly in Glen Art Reserve, East Gippsland, Australia
Has the synthetic biology industry hijacked IUCN?
Gates-funded synbio lobby firm Emerging Ag Inc takes driving seat in IUCN discussion on biodiversity and synbio. 3 Sep 2020
Podcast #4: What is Technology?
And why do we need technology assessment? An interview with Jim Thomas 20 Aug 2020
Mutual aid or digital big brother?
Tom Wakeford on what should come after Covid-19 21 May 2020
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