Despite bad publicity and lawsuits, Yelp continues to tank ratings in order to punish those who won’t advertise.
China’s omnipresent app regulates much of society. Will it be a blueprint or cautionary tale?
Excerpts of E. M. Forster’s 1909 futuristic dystopia The Machine Stops
Compared to 1984 or Brave New World, E. M. Forster’s 1909 futuristic novella The Machine Stops was, in some ways, the most eerily accurate prediction of our current technological milieu.
Despite marketing spin, Facebook’s Libra, like any cryptocurrency, would have done nothing to address poverty.
The Amazon Echo Auto promises only further distraction in a place where distraction is deadly: behind the wheel.
Counter to its positive mythology, Google manipulates search results to suit its own corporate purposes, quashing free access to information on the Web.
Our fourth print issue—covering issues of identity, censorship, Internet infrastructure and more—is about to ship nationally.
Data technology researcher and author Ben Green punctures the myth of the smart city.
Despite marketing imagery to the contrary, the “cloud” remains very much grounded in physical infrastructure, including unfathomable miles of wires.
