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Did We Trade Freedom for Safety? The Post-Pandemic Trap

Values for a Post-Pandemic Future

Matthew J. Dennis

We were told the global crisis would bring humanity together. Instead, it shattered our core values. In this presentation, we deconstruct the groundbreaking volume Values for a Post-Pandemic Future, edited and authored by prominent technology ethicists and philosophers Matthew J. Dennis, Georgy Ishmaev, and Jeroen van den Hoven from Delft University of Technology. Their work exposes how our obsession with absolute safety quietly bulldozed privacy, crushed democratic norms, fueled an unprecedented upward wealth transfer, and ushered in an era of irreversible digital surveillance. Discover how our collective moral compass was rewritten overnight and why questioning the new normal is vital to preserving our shared future.