‘Privacy’ Can’t Overcome Its Own Gimmick ‘Privacy’ Can’t Overcome Its Own Gimmick
The new play asks audience members to keep their phones on. And that’s not the only distraction.
Aug 5, 2016 / Carey Purcell
There’s a Problem With ‘Crowd Labor’ There’s a Problem With ‘Crowd Labor’
Online outsourcing comes with costs.
Jul 29, 2016 / Michelle Chen
Where Is the New Cyberfeminism? Where Is the New Cyberfeminism?
Virtual reality remains stuck in age-old ideas about women and their bodies.
Jul 28, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Cecilia D’Anastasio
Hillary Clinton’s Technology Agenda Isn’t Good Enough Hillary Clinton’s Technology Agenda Isn’t Good Enough
And Bernie Sanders deserves some of the blame, too.
Jul 11, 2016 / Micah L. Sifry
How the US and Israel Almost Caused Global Computer Catastrophe How the US and Israel Almost Caused Global Computer Catastrophe
In Zero Days, Alex Gibney examines the terrifying potential of cyberwarfare.
Jul 8, 2016 / Margaret Spillane
Clinton Could Gain Voters’ Trust by Facing Her E-mail Scandal Head-On Clinton Could Gain Voters’ Trust by Facing Her E-mail Scandal Head-On
Alex Gibney on cyber war, Ben Ehrenreich and Amy Wilentz on life in the West Bank, Joan Walsh on Clinton’s e-mail, and a farewell to Garrison Keillor.
Jul 7, 2016 / Podcast / Start Making Sense and Jon Wiener
Chattanooga Was a Typical Postindustrial City. Then It Began Offering Municipal Broadband. Chattanooga Was a Typical Postindustrial City. Then It Began Offering Municipal Broadband.
Chattanooga’s publicly owned Internet service has helped boost its economy and bridge the digital divide.
Jun 3, 2016 / P.E. Moskowitz
Time Servers Time Servers
A vision of time travel gets trapped in the media of our time.
Jun 2, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Ava Kofman
The National-Security Exposé So Secret Even Edward Snowden Didn’t Know About It The National-Security Exposé So Secret Even Edward Snowden Didn’t Know About It
A former senior Pentagon official shows how broken our whistleblower system really is.
Jun 1, 2016 / Feature / Mark Hertsgaard
The Afterlife of Polaroid The Afterlife of Polaroid
The company presents a case study in photography as a phenomenon of the instantaneous.
May 27, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Frances Richard