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What can we expect from the automated age?

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Whilst being strapped into this pretty scary rollercoaster with no means of escape- 2020 has been a pretty disastrous year, right? Well I'm a firm believer in looking at the positives in a time of turmoil and maybe this year really isn't that bad after all (just hear me out). Technology has seen vast improvements in recent years, which most of you that read my blog posts know, because it's all I tend to ramble on about. But with so much new technology as part of the information age, the industry started to become stagnated, as we simply couldn't keep up. The rate in which we have seen noticeable life-changing technological changes has slowed to the point where even the next iPhone release isn't a big deal. As we start to spend more time in our homes, technology which has long been at our disposal has finally made a significant climb. This can be seen with the huge uptake in online conference calling (namely via Zoom), the implementation of crowd noise in stadiums,

Do peaceful protests work?

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Originally proposed as a peaceful protest; the current anti-racist demonstrations across the US have started to turn aggressive, largely in part to the mass deployment of police on the streets, alongside the president’s idea to deploy the US military to bring calm. This event, rivalled by a multitude of historical events this year (take your pick), has sent shock  waves across the globe. Multiple countries are now showing widespread support for the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement, via both peaceful and destructive means. Often accompanying change is the notion of violence to enforce positive legislative decisions in favour of the oppressed. However, empirical research has found that anti-racist violence leads to an increase in white nationalist support, whilst an increase in white nationalist violence shows no increase in anti-racist support. Alongside this, there have been widespread claims that in a bid to turn peaceful protests violent, more aggressive means of polici