Tag: tech

• IT’S TIME TO BUILD

  April 22, 2020

  Every Western institution was unprepared for the coronavirus pandemic, despite many prior warnings. This monumental failure of institutional effectiveness will reverberate for the rest of the decade, but it’s not… more ›

• Clubhouse voice chat leads a wave of spontaneous social apps

  April 22, 2020

  Forget the calendar invite. Just jump into a conversation. That’s the idea powering a fresh batch of social startups poised to take advantage of our cleared schedules amidst quarantine. https://techcrunch.com/2020/04/18/clubhouse-app-chat-rooms/ more ›

• We Mapped How the Coronavirus Is Driving New Surveillance Programs Around the World

  April 12, 2020

  an attempt to stem the tide of the coronavirus pandemic, more than 25 governments around the world have instituted temporary or indefinite efforts to single out infected individuals or maintain… more ›

• The Impact of COVID-19 on Video Gaming and Our Digital Lives

  March 31, 2020

  Economic crises, natural disasters, and other long-tail events tend to accelerate underlying trends, exacerbate balances of power, and unravel businesses, business models, and business practices that were sustained by a… more ›

• The truth behind filter bubbles: Bursting some myths

  February 2, 2020

  A filter bubble is a state of intellectual or ideological isolation that may result from algorithms feeding us information we agree with, based on our past behaviour and search history.… more ›

• BuzzFeed In 2020

  January 13, 2020

  BuzzFeed’s core strength has always been our ability to adapt and innovate as the world changes. When BuzzFeed started, smart phones didn’t exist, the social platforms were just for personal… more ›

• State Support Helped Fuel Huawei’s Global Rise

  January 12, 2020

  Tens of billions of dollars in financial assistance from the Chinese government helped propel Huawei to the top of global telecommunications, a scale of support that dwarfed what its tech… more ›

• 7 Reasons Why Video Gaming Will Take Over

  January 12, 2020

  In October of last year, I wrote about the absurdity of the fact that Big Media content companies and distributors were spending unprecedented sums to increase their exposure to a… more ›

• A constraint of the reader-revenue model emerges

  January 2, 2020

  Asking readers to pay has become the go-to answer in digital news. In 2020, I think we’ll start to discover one constraint of that model. https://www.niemanlab.org/2019/12/a-constraint-of-the-reader-revenue-model-emerges/ more ›

• From Prenda to Snowden to SpaceX: Tech trends that shaped the 2010s

  January 1, 2020

  It’s been quite a decade. Tech surfed into the 2010s upon a huge wave of optimism and connection (Facebook!) but eventually wiped out on the shoals of cynicism and tribalism… more ›