[NEWS] Four links on the future: robot rights, passive houses, Facebook, green Bank of Canada

[rfmcdonald]

• Daily JSTOR considers, in the aftermath of Blade Runner: 2049, the question of extending rights to robots. What do we owe them?


• CBC notes that, using passive housing technology, some Canadian groups have built extraordinarily energy-efficient apartment houses with rather low ongoing costs for (among others) tenants.


• Nick Zarzycki makes the obvious point that, for the good of democracy, trusting Facebook to regulate itself is foolish. External review and control is needed. MacLean's has it.


• Hamish Stewart at the National Observer considers what it would take for the Bank of Canada to have authentically "green" policies.