Podcast #36: Jerry Mander
Author and activist Jerry Mander reflects on a long life of technoskepticism and how it relates to the current global moment.
Author and activist Jerry Mander reflects on a long life of technoskepticism and how it relates to the current global moment.
A desire for convenience and openness has left local and state public records easily available for mining, combining, and abuse.
Section 215 of the Patriot Act is set to sunset. New legislation would kill it entirely. But how much do intelligence agencies follow the law anyway?
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.
Our fourth print issue—covering issues of identity, censorship, Internet infrastructure and more—is about to ship nationally.
Despite marketing imagery to the contrary, the “cloud” remains very much grounded in physical infrastructure, including unfathomable miles of wires.
College students given an assignment of reading a print book learn about their own habits and the power of concentration.
Josh Golin, Executive Director of Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood, fights a metastasizing marketing machine that has swept kids into its orbit of consumerism and surveillance.
Activist, author, and sociologist Gail Dines discusses the impact of pornography—particularly in its virulent and violent Internet form—on culture.