Tag: media platforms

• Life Inside China’s Total Surveillance State

  December 19, 2017

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• Lynch

  December 19, 2017

  Lynch » This paper explores pragmatic approaches that might be employed to document the behavior of large, complex socio-technical systems (often today shorthanded as “algorithms”) that centrally involve some mixture… more ›

• Presentation: Ten Year Futures

  December 9, 2017

  Presentation: Ten Year Futures » This autumn I gave the keynote at Andreessen Horowitz’s annual ‘Tech Summit’ conference, talking about the state of tech today and what’s likely to happen… more ›

• The End of Ownership

  November 23, 2017

  The End of Ownership » Anyone who plays MapleStory—an online multiplayer game created by South Korean developer Wizet—soon learns to loathe what gamers call “looting. more ›

• Datagasm

  November 23, 2017

  Datagasm » It was only a couple of decades ago, before WiFi or the static death shriek of dial-up modems, that fetishes were hard-won secrets. more ›

• “We have to grit our teeth and hang on to the…

  November 23, 2017

  ““We have to grit our teeth and hang on to the fence and not take it for granted that the web will lead us to wonderful things,” he said.” –… more ›

• Spam is back

  November 20, 2017

  Spam is back » Bill Waggoner, a longtime email marketer who the Las Vegas Review Journal called a “spam king” in 2003, recently found himself in an ironic situation: He… more ›

• How Facebook Figures Out Everyone You've Ever Met

  November 15, 2017

  How Facebook Figures Out Everyone You've Ever Met » In real life, in the natural course of conversation, it is not uncommon to talk about a person you may know. more ›

• Soothsayer in the Hills Sees Silicon Valley’s…

  November 12, 2017

  Soothsayer in the Hills Sees Silicon Valley’s Sinister Side » more ›

• The Smartphone’s Future: It’s All About the Camera

  November 12, 2017

  The Smartphone’s Future: It’s All About the Camera » The New York Times Personal Tech The Smartphone’s Future: It’s All About the Camera August 30, 2017 Tech Fix By BRIAN… more ›