Communications of the ACM
Designing an Ethical Tech Developer
Studying how to improve teaching young people to ethically exercise the power of technology.
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Tech Moves to the Background as Design Becomes Foremost
In the last few decades, the computing industry has passed through several different eras.
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Blowing a Whistle
I'm glad I live in a country with people who are vigilant in defending civil liberties.
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Fixing the Digital Economy
Two big trends in the world appear to contradict each other.
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Make Patent Trolls Pay in Court
From an early age we are taught the importance of fighting fairly.
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The Banality of 'don’t Be Evil'
"The New Digital Age" is a startlingly clear and provocative blueprint for technocratic imperialism, from two of its leading witch doctors, Eric Schmidt and Jared...
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At Google Conference, Cameras Even in the Bathroom
The future came crashing down on me this week at the Google I/O developer conference while I stood at a bathroom urinal.
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Measuring the Benefits of Tech Tools
When I was a young reporter we could not afford cellphones.
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The Flattening of Design
It might sound audacious to think that Microsoft, the arbiter of uncool, was at the forefront of design a few years ago. But it was.
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More Cracks ndermine the Citadel of Tv Profits
For the longest time in the media business, the concept of the bundle has been foundational.
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The Child, the Tablet, and the Developing Mind
I recently watched my sister perform an act of magic.
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Googling You
The settlement last week between a group of state attorneys general and Google over the company’s improper data collection from home wireless networks shows the...
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A Museum's Games Are Not on Pedestals
Video games, as their name suggests, combine the ancient human practice of formal play with moving pictures, a younger form.
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The Next Frontier Is Inside Your Brain
The Obama administration is planning a multiyear research effort to produce an "activity map" that would show in unprecedented detail the workings of the human,...
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With Playstation 4, Sony Aims For Return to Glory
For the Sony Corporation, a tech industry also-ran, the moment of reckoning is here.
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Talking, Walking Objects
Meeting Simon for the first time was one of the most sublime experiences I've had. With every coy head nod, casual hand wave and deep eye gaze, I felt he already...
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Red Pill, Blue Pill: Is the niverse Just a Giant Computer Simulation?
I've started making my way (skeptically) through Ray Kurzweil’s How to Create a Mind, and at the recommendation of a friend, I've also started keeping tabs on ...
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I Am Not Big Brother
I've grown accustomed to reading inaccurate accounts of my day job. I'm in political data.
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At Dawn We Sleep
If you read the newspapers on the morning of Dec. 7, 1941, you would have been led to believe that Japan was poised to attack—but in Southeast Asia, not Pearl Harbor...
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