Google Becomes Evil
Counter to its positive mythology, Google manipulates search results to suit its own corporate purposes, quashing free access to information on the Web.
Counter to its positive mythology, Google manipulates search results to suit its own corporate purposes, quashing free access to information on the Web.
Jonathan Taplin, former music and film professional, tells first-hand what the new rentier economy of Internet aggregators like Google and Facebook has done to the creative arts, journalism, and democracy.
Our 2nd issue is off to the printer. Here’s a sneak peek of what’s inside.
Our own Art Keller chats with author David Sax about the themes in his book The Revenge of Analog.
The Technoskeptic arrives in print!
Chatbots are becoming more sophisticated both in their ability to process language and gauge emotion. As social media increasingly influences our news and beliefs, this could be a big problem.
Software now in development makes it easy to fabricate audio and video of real people, literally putting words in their mouths.
The culture of zines, those xeroxed, do-it-yourself pamphlets, goes back decades. Instead of dying with the Internet, it’s as strong as ever.
Journalist and media critic Bill Powers wrote a bestselling book about stepping away from tech; now he’s on the inside trying to make tech better.
Tim Wu is a renowned scholar on our communications networks, having coined the phrase “net neutrality” and written extensively on the subject both inside and outside of government and academia, including the White House and Columbia University. His latest book, The Attention Merchants, is a history of advertising, and it’s not pretty. He spoke with us about our declining private spheres, the current state of the Internet, and the effects of what he calls The Cycle, as new communications technologies inevitably move from open to closed.