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Studies, guides, data and news from Highbeam, organized around three key areas. Search or explore below.
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Overview of Technology’s Impacts: where technology has taken us, where it’s going, and what our place in it may be.
Concentrations
Study
Concentration of Wealth
Technology has produced unquestionable abundance. How it has been distributed, and what could spread it more widely.
Study
Concentration of Attention
More of our leisure screen time is now chosen by recommendation systems, not by us. How that happened, and how to take some back.
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Concentration of Intelligence
Computing power and the most capable AI systems are concentrating quickly. How it happened, and why it matters.
Moral Impact
Study · Dataset
Technology’s Moral Impacts
124 technologies, from the plow to TikTok, scored on nine qualities of character.
Study · Interactive model
Childhood Formation
Feeds have joined family, school and friends as a major influence on children. What the evidence shows, and what helps.
Change
Study · Interactive chart
The Intelligence Explosion
A history of intelligence, and how quickly machines have come to compete with ours.
Essay
Exponential Growth
Earlier technologies leveled off, giving institutions time to catch up. Today’s may not.
Study · Interactive map
A New Division of Labor
Which work is likely to move to machines and which stays human, with the types of work mapped.
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