Giovanni Tiso
Giovanni Tiso is an Italian-born essayist based in New Zealand. He blogs at bat-bean-beam.blogspot.com
Articles by Giovanni Tiso
Giving away our DNA
Sold as an empowering route to better health, are genetic testing kits any more than a data grab?
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With religious fervour
The New Atheists thought they stood for truth and reason – but did they help usher in an age of conspiracist thinking and prejudice?
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Self-knowledge through numbers
Wearable technology can track our every movement and heartbeat – but what happens when insurers and employers get involved?
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Time to log off
Calls to delete Facebook in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal raise a bigger question: can we live without the internet?
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What Silvio Berlusconi tells us about “post-truth” politics
Donald Trump’s populism has a striking precedent. So what can we learn from the Berlusconi era?
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The authenticity of online grief
People who mourned David Bowie online were condemned for being self-indulgent, but shared rituals matter.
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Not going to reach my telephone
We worry that new technology is ruining our ability to think – in fact, such fears have been around since the very invention of writing
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