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Vania La Rocca

Vania La Rocca

Vania La Rocca is an AI product leader and writer exploring the intersection of technology, ethics, regulation and society.
Vania La Rocca 20 Aug 2026
A bright yellow sunflower center. Its central seeds look like a crowd of people converging towards the center.

THE FUTURE IS FOR EVERYONE. IS IT REALLY?

Vania La Rocca contrasts Mark Zuckerberg’s manifesto with what is already happening far from Silicon Valley. In Uganda, a locally built AI tool based on an open Chinese model is serving farmers in their own languages more effectively and affordably than leading American systems.
Vania La Rocca 20 Aug 2026
A street in Oxford is packed with a crowd of hundreds of people celebrating May Day.

AI MEETS UI: HOW HUMANITY CAN SUCCEED WITH TECHNOLOGY

As AI reshapes how we work, learn, decide and organise our lives, Nigel Nicholson asks whether technology will diminish what makes us human, or help us construct new environments in which our unique individuality can flourish.
Nigel Nicholson 19 Aug 2026
Photograph of a clear cut forest in Kerala, Russia in 1995

FROM PAPER TO PIXELS: THE HIDDEN ENVIRONMENTAL COSTS OF THE DIGITAL ECONOMY

The digital revolution was supposed to make the economy cleaner and lighter. Instead, many environmental costs were displaced rather than eliminated. From forests and paper mills to data centres, Ronise Nepomuceno examines the hidden physical footprint of the digital economy.
Ronise Nepomuceno 09 Aug 2026

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