Digital Infrastructure

Pulitzer Winner's New Book Warns Digital Infrastructure Is Outpacing Democratic Oversight

A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist has released a new work examining how governments and tech-driven bureaucracies are increasingly automating public administration, raising questions about accountability. The book, titled around the concept of an 'artificial state,' traces how digital systems have reshaped the mechanics of governance over recent decades.

news.slashdot.org · 2026-09-20

Report calls for treating digital systems as critical infrastructure requiring safety standards

A new analysis argues that digital infrastructure—search engines, cloud platforms, and networks people rely on daily—should be designed, built, and maintained with the same rigor applied to physical infrastructure like water systems and power grids. It draws comparisons to failures such as Flint's water crisis and Puerto Rico's electrical grid collapse to illustrate what happens when essential systems are neglected.

fastcompany.com · 2026-09-07