In January 2025, I was honoured to be invited as one of the speakers for the discussion of Payal Arora's book From Pessimism to Promise in Rotterdam. The event was hosted by V2_Lab for the Unstable Media.

We touched upon the importance of balancing the awareness of dangers of new technologies, such as surveillance and data collection, with that of how these technologies also serve and support many people around the world. As Payal says, being stuck in pessimism - which many people in the Global West are - makes people hopeless, while being optimistic about technologies, as many people in the Global South are, can also boost action to push for important changes in this field.

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