Topic
Technology
Screens, networks, and the machinery underneath them.
22 cards
Digital Etiquette
The new set of manners
The unwritten manners that apply to messages, posts, and calls.
Technology Ethics
Should we, because we can?
Asking whether something should be built, not only whether it can be.
Your Digital Footprint
The trail you cannot erase
The record every online action leaves behind, whether meant or not.
The Password
Your weakest wall
A secret used to prove an account belongs to the person opening it.
The Algorithm
The editor you never chose
The set of rules deciding what a feed shows and in what order.
The Deepfake
Seeing is no longer believing
A convincing video or voice of a real person, made by software.
The Filter Bubble
The echo chamber you built without knowing
The narrowed view that comes from seeing only agreeable things.
Aadhaar
Identity in twelve digits
India's twelve-digit identity number, linked to fingerprints and iris.
DigiLocker
The filing cabinet that weighs nothing
A government service holding official documents in digital form.
Two-Factor Authentication
The second lock
A second proof of identity, needed even after the password is right.
Media Literacy
The headline is not the story
Reading news with an eye on who wrote it, and why.
The Attention Economy
You are the product
The business of holding attention and selling it to advertisers.
Confirmation Bias Online
The lie your brain prefers
The habit of trusting evidence that agrees with what is already believed.
The Turing Test
The question machines cannot answer yet
A test asking whether a machine's conversation is mistakable for a human's.
Fact-Checking
Three steps before you share
Checking a claim against its source before passing it on.
Cyberbullying
Words that follow you home
Cruelty carried out online, where it stays searchable and does not close.
Screen Time
The experiment no one approved
The hours spent looking at screens, and what is known about the effect.
Logical Fallacies
The argument that sounds right but is not
Arguments that follow a broken pattern while sounding convincing.
Teamwork
The skill no algorithm replaces
Getting more from a group than the members could manage alone.
The Physical Internet
The cloud is a cable on a seabed
The cables and buildings that carry what feels like thin air.
The Chip
The hardest thing humans make in bulk
The layered silicon device behind almost every modern machine.
The Spectrum
The country sells air, and means it
The range of radio frequencies every phone and broadcast has to share.