Why Facebook Matters
I wanted to get off Facebook—to deactivate my account entirely. It seemed like …
Posts in category “Technology”
The Beauty of Getting Lost
Rediscovering the mystery of travel in a GPS world
Aggregated Soul, Quantified Self
Know thyself! According to the Quantified Self movement, data aggregation is the answer …
Why Facebook’s Experiment Threatens Further Manipulation
Facebook has taken a lot of heat in the past few days …
The Joke Is on Yo—and All Its Users
Breathy think pieces have lauded the latest viral app Yo as “merging …
Tech Can’t Escape Geography After All
Are conservatives doomed to forever miss out on the booming innovations of …
The Limits of Science in Matters of Justice
Chris Mooney of Mother Jones recently reviewed Harry Collins’s book, Are We All Scientific …
Should We Get Rid of Cash?
The ability to buy things online has replaced cash, almost entirely, for …
Our Collective Hatred of Ignorance
There has never been a time in human history when knowledge was …
The Tyranny of Connectivity
The search for online perfection traps us in a Fear of Missing Out.
Amazon’s War Is First in a Series
In an effort to get publisher Hachette to agree to give Amazon …
The Rights and Responsibilities of Search Engine Users
While truth has usually been a defense to charges of libel, Google …
Twitter Is Alive and Well
Despite The Atlantic’s elegy for Twitter last week, the real-time social network simply …
Man Cannot Live on Soylent Alone
Nutrition is the lesser half of food.
Can’t Staunch a Heartbleed
If you’ve used the internet in the last two years, there’s a …
What Would Tocqueville Say About #CancelColbert?
Suey Park, a 23-year-old self-professed activist known on Twitter for the hashtag …
CPAC Debates Snowden’s Cause
John Solomon, the editor of the Washington Times, opened the privacy panel at …
The Beauty of Getting Lost
Rediscovering the mystery of travel in a GPS world
Aggregated Soul, Quantified Self
Know thyself! According to the Quantified Self movement, data aggregation is the answer …
Why Facebook’s Experiment Threatens Further Manipulation
Facebook has taken a lot of heat in the past few days …
The Joke Is on Yo—and All Its Users
Breathy think pieces have lauded the latest viral app Yo as “merging …
Tech Can’t Escape Geography After All
Are conservatives doomed to forever miss out on the booming innovations of …
The Limits of Science in Matters of Justice
Chris Mooney of Mother Jones recently reviewed Harry Collins’s book, Are We All Scientific …
Should We Get Rid of Cash?
The ability to buy things online has replaced cash, almost entirely, for …
Our Collective Hatred of Ignorance
There has never been a time in human history when knowledge was …
The Tyranny of Connectivity
The search for online perfection traps us in a Fear of Missing Out.
Amazon’s War Is First in a Series
In an effort to get publisher Hachette to agree to give Amazon …
The Rights and Responsibilities of Search Engine Users
While truth has usually been a defense to charges of libel, Google …
Twitter Is Alive and Well
Despite The Atlantic’s elegy for Twitter last week, the real-time social network simply …
Man Cannot Live on Soylent Alone
Nutrition is the lesser half of food.
Can’t Staunch a Heartbleed
If you’ve used the internet in the last two years, there’s a …
What Would Tocqueville Say About #CancelColbert?
Suey Park, a 23-year-old self-professed activist known on Twitter for the hashtag …
CPAC Debates Snowden’s Cause
John Solomon, the editor of the Washington Times, opened the privacy panel at …
