Faculty Associate Petra Molnar and other tech experts identify trends that they're watching in the new year. Molnar predicts an authoritarian turn in tech policy, writing that she anticipates further automatization of physical and digital surveillance infrastructure. "2026 may be less about “new” tools—like robo-dogs, iris-scanning orbs and border vigilante apps—and more about existing tools becoming integrated into a continuous data-driven pipeline, from social media and biometrics to automated triage."
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