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A new generation of tech activists, organizers, and whistleblowers, most of whom are female, non-white, gender-diverse, or queer…
MIT Technology Review| August 12, 2022
You just wanted to shop for a birthday gift in peace—instead, you got ads that follow you around the internet, and coupons in your email that remember exactly which...The Atlantic From ACM Opinion | October 21, 2016
The self-driving car's greatest promise is that it will buy its passengers that most precious and finite of resources: time.The Atlantic From ACM Opinion | October 13, 2016
In the past few years, the devastating effects of hackers breaking into an organization's network, stealing confidential data, and publishing everything have been...The Atlantic From ACM Opinion | September 14, 2016
It's 2016: What possible reason is there to vote on paper? When we use touchscreens to communicate, work, and shop, why can't we use similar technology to vote?The Atlantic From ACM Opinion | August 29, 2016
More than a decade ago, the keynote speaker at a major annual cybersecurity conference strode into the spotlight and predicted the death of the password.The Atlantic From ACM Opinion | June 9, 2016
We've long stopped referring to the Internet as "the information superhighway," but there was a reason for the metaphor.The Atlantic From ACM Opinion | June 2, 2016
For the last century, we've imagined a future where we're surrounded by robotic butlers that are classy, smart, and discreet.The Atlantic From ACM Opinion | May 26, 2016
Almost five years ago, in a soliloquy transcribed by The Wall Street Journal, Reid Hoffman suggested a comprehensive theory of social-network success.The Atlantic From ACM Opinion | May 10, 2016
In America, surveillance has always played an outsized role in the relationship between creditors and debtors.The Atlantic From ACM Opinion | May 3, 2016
The Pacific Northwest tree octopus existed years before Wikipedia was founded. I’m using "existed" loosely here, of course, because there's no such thing as a Pacific...The Atlantic From ACM Opinion | April 27, 2016
Andy Grove, the Silicon Valley pioneer who died last week at age 79, was many things: a survivor of the Nazi occupation of Hungary and refugee of Cold War Eastern...The Atlantic From ACM Opinion | March 28, 2016
A memory that’s stayed with me from my stint in the military nearly 50 years ago is a sign that my supply sergeant kept on his desk: "We’ve been working with less...The Atlantic From ACM Opinion | March 3, 2016
Each summer, the computer-science researchers behind the world's best poker-playing robots bring their creations together for a tournament.The Atlantic From ACM Opinion | February 22, 2016
A picture may be worth a thousand words, but the inverse is also true: A word is worth a thousand pictures.The Atlantic From ACM Opinion | February 11, 2016
The Japanese weather satellite Himawari-8 sits 22,000 miles from Earth in orbit. On August 5, 2015, it peered down at the half of Earth that it can see, a hemisphere...The Atlantic From ACM Opinion | January 27, 2016