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- The Internet has made it much more effective and cheaper to spread propaganda.
- A faithful lifehacker would use technology to avoid dead time and move on to the entertaining, more gratifying activities as soon as possible.
- A lot of the geeks in Silicon Valley will tell you they no longer believe in the ability of policymakers in Washington to accomplish anything.…
- As economic life relies more and more on the Internet, the potential for small bands of hackers to launch devastating attacks on the world economy…
- As smart technologies become more intrusive, they risk undermining our autonomy by suppressing behaviors that someone somewhere has deemed undesirable.
- Contrary to the utopian rhetoric of social media enthusiasts, the Internet often makes the jump from deliberation to participation even more difficult, thwarting collective action…
- For many oppositional movements, the Internet, while providing the opportunity to distribute information more quickly and cheaper, may have actually made their struggle more difficult…
- If we don't like rent control, we ought to oppose it on political and social grounds - and not just by arguing that, thanks to…
- In China, Internet surveillance has already become a profitable industry. In fact, a growing number of private firms eagerly assist the local police by aggregating…
- In reality, quitting Facebook is much more problematic than the company's executives suggest, if only because users cannot extract all the intangible social capital they…
- The decentralized nature of online conversations often makes it easier to manipulate public opinion, both domestically and globally. Regimes that once relied on centralized systems…
- The reason why there is more pessimism about technology in Europe has to do with history, the use of databases to keep track of people…
- When someone at the State Department proclaims Facebook to be the most organic tool for promoting democracy the world has ever seen - that's a…
- As leakers take great risks in releasing information, assuring them that they are not sacrificing themselves in vain and that their leaks would have public…
- Is there anything more self-defeating than using technology to free up your time - so that you can learn how to do an even better…
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