why valley execs need to stop prognosticating
When you’re a CEO of a tech company in Silicon Valley, your job often consists of going to some navel-gazing summit where everybody talks about “disruption” and “social media landscapes” along with...
View Articlesearch engines vs. conspiracy theorists?
If you’ve ever read anything by Evgeny Morozov, you know that his views of the web tend to be rather mixed. In his best known work, The Net Delusion, he argues against the idea that the web could...
View Articlethe nineties want their techno-utopia back
Professional futurist Ayesha Khanna is someone you’ve never seen called out by name on this blog, but she’s as devoted to the doctrine of techno-utopianism as any Kurzwelian and advocates the idea that...
View Articlethree cheers for encryption and anonymity?
An obscure company called Silent Circle wants to secure your smartphone using nifty tricks you wouldn’t think are out of place in a Bond film, if movie studios could manage to get a technically...
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