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Reuters The Invisible Economy
Our techniques for measuring economic performance are obsolete, obscuring a complete picture of how we're faring.
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Wikimedia Commons Redlining for the 21st Century
Companies can now use data to constrict which options they offer to certain consumers—and at what prices.
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flickr/Bex Walton Welcome to Algorithmic Prison
The use of Big Data to to profile citizens is subtly, silently constraining freedom.
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Reuters The Internet Is the Greatest Legal Facilitator of Inequality in Human History
It doesn't have to be.
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With Great Computing Power Comes Great Surveillance
The dark side of Moore's Law
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This Sociological Theory Explains Why Wall Street Is Rigged for Crisis
In giant, complex systems like global financial markets, terrible accidents are inevitable.
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Productivity Tools for Cybercrime
It's a lot easier to steal hundreds of millions of dollars now than it used to be
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The Surveillance-Internet Complex
Google and other Internet companies should make it clear to users what data they're collecting.
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Skinner Marketing: We're the Rats, and Facebook Likes Are the Reward
Our Internet handlers are using operant conditioning to modify our behavior.
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Christian Hartmann / Reuters The Internet 'Narcissism Epidemic'
Don't let popularity set your standard.
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Hooray for Marissa Mayer
Winning in Silicon Valley is about technology, but it is about culture as well. Mayer's first job at Yahoo is to build culture, and she needs her deputies in the office.
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Exploiting the Neuroscience of Internet Addiction
Much of what we do online releases dopamine into the brain's pleasure centers, resulting in obsessive pleasure-seeking behavior. Technology companies face the option to exploit our addictions for profit.
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What Happened to Silicon Values?
Compare Mark Zuckerberg and Larry Page to the founders of Hewlett Packard and Intel, and you'll find a paradigm shift as to how the tech industry treats its customers.
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The Tragedy of the Internet Commons
Like overgrazing of public lands or over-fishing of the seas, the digital space will continue to be exploited -- and that's why it needs to be regulated.
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Why the Internet Makes It Impossible to Stop Giant Wall Street Losses
Information technology has allowed banks to make huge bets that can go bust in the blink of an eye, and more regulation won't help.
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Will Low Tech Solve the Jobs Crisis?
Just as Henry Ford may not have predicted the rise of drive-in movie theaters, the Internet Age will produce changes to our physical landscape we can't yet envision.
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How Computers Are Creating a Second Economy Without Workers
Call it the post-employee economy: The digital revolution is creating billions of dollars of wealth in a second world without people.
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How Big, Bold Policy Changes Breed Economic Catastrophe
Got an idea that will change the world? It'll probably have some terrible unintended consequences.
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How Super-Connectivity Kills Economics
The result of increased connectivity has been a more volatile and less predictable economy -- and theories that no longer apply to our frenzied world.
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Are Brick-and-Mortar Economists Leading Us Astray?
What do many economists have in common with travel agencies, bookstores and newspapers? They've clung to beliefs and strategies that no longer work in an overconnected world.
