VPNs, once considered sensible and essential for online security, are being rebranded as suspicious, with the Age Verification Providers Association pushing users into age checks or geolocation just for browsing safely.
Brits are flocking to VPNs to dodge the Online Safety Act, but Dr R P, a robotics scientist, warns that creating an internet that's genuinely censorship-free is going to be hard.
Bill Gates has said only three jobs will survive the AI revolution: computer programmers, energy engineers and biologists. Professor James Alexander is somewhat alarmed by this coming 'Internet of Things'.
Forget about reading books, teenagers aren't even bothering with the internet anymore, discovers Joanna Gray. With social media algorithms feeding them entertainment, looking things up just doesn't feature.
Silicon Valley denizens have been heralding the approach of the 'Singularity', when mankind's mind will merge with the global internet, for many years now. Sounds hellish, says Steven Tucker.
