technology

Debunking the myth that capitalism drives innovation.

Debunking the myth that capitalism drives innovation.

From John Deere to Apple, corporations try to prevent you from fixing your own stuff. But a growing movement is pushing back.

The case for taking a break from the news.

We can reclaim our cities from the auto industry—or we can spend all our lives in traffic.

The problem with the media’s individualistic response to collective tragedy.

Electronic monitors are devices of unfreedom—not decoration.

Neither neoliberal globalization nor populist isolationism offers a workable path forward.

The two congressmen discuss Donald Trump, Ellison's bid for DNC chair and how progressives can actually win.

In Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World, the septuagenarian filmmaker explores online gaming, self-driving cars and soccer-playing robots.

In the apps of the "platform cooperativism" movement, workers share in the profits

Don't fear the robot.

In Geek Heresy, former Microsoft do-gooder Kentaro Toyama reconsiders tech-based social-change initiatives.

In Enchanted Objects, David Rose rhapsodizes about the coming Internet of Things. But can high-tech objects really reconnect us?

The occasional $120 million check doesn't offset tech billionaires' erosion of the public sector.

Astra Taylor reminds us that the Internet cannot magically produce revolution.

The tech industry's golden children can't get away with bigotry.

Assange, Manning and Snowden are the new heroes of the era of digitalized control.

As we increasingly use algorithms that base decisions on past successes, innovation is threatened.

A Vermont town reinvents the Net.

A virtual democracy against all odds.

Public transportation needs massive investment. Will the Obama administration step up?

Robots have the perverse side effect of making war seem easy.

Marine biologist Riki Ott explains how Cordova, Alaska, rebounded 20 years after the oil spill.

The Pentagon’s dream of a techno army is doomed to fail.

Obama must ensure that the green economy provides a living wage and opportunity for all.

Detecting lies or setting the stage for abuse?

In the next five years, according to DefenseLink, the Pentagon plans to spend $2 billion on robots, breaking the monopoly of human soldiers in an army

Bike-sharing programs that provide cheap access to inner-city bicycles are popular all over Europe, and Beijing, and even American cities are catching on

Iran's underground music scene has more followers than ever, largely because Iranian musicians are performing on a new stage: the Internet

The perils and promise of point-and-click politics

Millennials, explained Arthur Mitchell, director of strategic planning for the Navy's Accelerate Your Life campaign, are "narcissistic praise junkies" and "a somewhat alien life force"

Amidst the demise of Clamor, Punk Planet, Satya and LiP, Tipping the Sacred Cow: The Best of LiP reads like a super-special edition--complete with illustrations, a "theft ethics" quiz, a glossary of culture-jamming lingo and other useful appendices

Homeland Security plans to share spy satellite data with domestic agencies

The appearance of seven Democratic presidential contenders at the YearlyKos convention demonstrated that the Kossacks and fellow A-listers--along with what the Liberal Blog Advertising Network calls their 3 million daily readers--are now ensconced as political players

This October might be the last chance for local community radio stations to receive high-power licenses from the FCC.

Iraqi artist Wafaa Bilal invited people to shoot him, and got all too many takers

Meet the netroots activists who have moved online and into political office

Why are the Communications Workers of America opting out of the Save the Internet coalition?

The revolutionary potential of the Internet is far from self-evident

Terry J. Allen argues that CT scans, while effective diagnostic tools, can be dangerous because of the high levels of radiation to which they expose patients.

According to Anthropologist Thomas de Zengotita, Websites like MySpace and YouTube encourage socializing and self adolation.