We are only beginning to understand on how subtle a communication system the functioning of an advanced industrial society is based — a communications system which we call the market...
We've grown accustomed to assuming that computerized devices are always better than older technologies. That's true of most devices, but it's probably not true of voting machines. When it comes...
On a daily basis, most of us visit Google more often than the water cooler, bathroom, and break room combined. “Visit” is, of course, a figure of speech. It’s sometimes...
Apple CEO Steve Jobs is quickly becoming the Rockefeller of the music industry. Online music sales are exploding–almost tripling since last year–while overall album sales have declined 3.9 percent in...
The advocates of network neutrality regulations are working very hard to create a sense of crisis, but is there really a need to regulate the Internet?
France recently mandated Apple to open up its iTunes technology. But the right approach is for the state to remain neutral, neither forcing companies to open their proprietary technologies to...
