In "On What We Can Not Do," a short and pungent essay published a few years ago, the Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben outlined two ways in which power operates...The New York Times From ACM Opinion | May 21, 2014
Thanks to advances in technology, we may soon revisit a question raised four centuries ago: Are there things we should try not to know?The New York Times From ACM Opinion | May 12, 2014
Like many people in this modern world, I struggle with the tension between the conveniences offered by the latest technology and the loss of privacy that comes...The New York Times From ACM Opinion | May 8, 2014
The best way to think about Aereo, the company at the center of this week's Supreme Court battle over the future of computing, is as an example of legal performance...The New York Times From ACM Opinion | April 24, 2014
The news that Facebook paid $2 billion for a virtual reality start-up, Oculus VR, might strike you as a bit zany.The New York Times From ACM Opinion | April 7, 2014
One recent morning, while contemplating writing this column, I scrolled through thousands and thousands of listings for mundane microgigs on Mechanical Turk, or...The New York Times From ACM Opinion | April 2, 2014
For years, techies have argued that getting an extra monitor or two for your desktop computer is an especially effective way to increase personal productivity.The New York Times From ACM Opinion | March 20, 2014
It seems as if every week there's a news story about someone committing a crime and confessing to it on Facebook, bragging about it on Twitter or sharing photos...The New York Times From ACM Opinion | February 21, 2014
In Mikhail Bulgakov's novel "The Master and Margarita," the protagonist, a writer, burns a manuscript in a moment of despair, only to find out later from the Devil...The New York Times From ACM Opinion | February 18, 2014
Seven months ago, the world began to learn the vast scope of the National Security Agency's reach into the lives of hundreds of millions of people in the United...The New York Times From ACM Opinion | January 6, 2014
Five years ago, the DJI Phantom 2 Vision would have seemed like a science fiction film prop or a piece of surveillance hardware flown only by the sexiest of superspies...The New York Times From ACM Opinion | January 2, 2014
Theodor Holm Nelson, who coined the term hypertext, has been a thorn in the side of the computing establishment for more than a half century.The New York Times From ACM Opinion | December 18, 2013
To avoid surveillance, the first four Americans to visit Edward Snowden in Moscow carried no cell phones or laptops.Time From ACM Opinion | December 12, 2013
Clifford I. Nass, a professor of communication at Stanford who died on Saturday, regaled me several times over the years about his method for torturing students...The New York Times From ACM Opinion | November 6, 2013
Consumer trust is a vital currency for every big Internet company, which helps to explain why the giants of Silicon Valley have gone to great lengths in recent...The New York Times From ACM Opinion | October 28, 2013
Beleaguered gadgetmaker BlackBerry said on Monday that it's signed a tentative agreement to be purchased by a group led by Canadian holding company Fairfax Financial...Time From ACM Opinion | September 25, 2013