societies

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Mobile phones can also help authorities in North Korea -- one of the world's most tightly surveilled societies -- keep tabs on people.

From Barron's • May 5, 2026

Such documents highlight how essential writing was for managing early societies.

From Science Daily • May 5, 2026

As Earth’s societies rearrange around the AI race, and many of us use it without fully measuring its environmental and social cost, “Battlestar Galactica” gives us a lot to think about.

From Salon • May 5, 2026

Mr. Wyman asks us to approach such societies on their own terms, rather than shoehorning them into a particular slot on a scale of progress.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026

To control the practice of their trade, craftsmen banded together to form societies called guilds.

From "The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science" by Joyce Sidman