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NFTs and Gamestop on The Future, This Week

This week: we discuss how digital ownership through NFTs creates value and new kinds of assets, and what the GameStop saga reveals about new forms of spontaneous digital organising.

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Is FaceApp hoarding our data?

Is FaceApp amassing a database of user-submitted images for political purposes, under the guise of a light-hearted game?

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The words that ate 2018

Each year the Macquarie Dictionary Committee choose a new word that represents the year gone by. Drawn from a short list, the words selected are both innovative and highly topical: so it’s no coincidence we have delved into some of the issues underlying these evolving words.