Teenagers buying CDs aren't making a political statement. They just like CDs.
Tech billionaires aren't juvenile science-fiction nerds, they just can't read
Tech billionaires aren't juvenile science-fiction nerds, they just can't read
Our Longing for Inconvenience
People are pining for old technologies—CD players, VCRs, Walkmans. What’s behind our longing for inconvenience?
1960s Tech Commercial
Big Tech tried to get young people addicted. Now we’re fighting back
Two seismic court decisions in the US have intervened where legislators have failed to defend social media users from exploitation, writes campaigner Zamaan Qureshi
Technology and Below-the-Line Labor in the Copyfight over Intellectual Property
Andrew Ross, Technology and Below-the-Line Labor in the Copyfight over Intellectual Property, American Quarterly, Vol. 58, No. 3, Rewiring the "Nation": The Place of Technology in American Studies (Sep., 2006), pp. 743-766
Sony erases digital content from libraries; we're reminded we don’t own what we buy
Sony has been scaling down its digitial store for a few years.
Why Protecting Kids from Social Media May Make Things Worse — Douglas Rushkoff
I’m supposed to give a talk next week about kids and social media and the need for more media literacy education, more regulation of platforms, and more substantive discussion about how to keep our kids from media-induced self-harm. The whole event is well-meaning, but is characterized by a sense of worry and protection. And for some reason, after years of making those sorts of arguments in my articles and documentaries, I have a strong impulse to pivot the other way.
No need to stop the 'brain rot': Modern kids aren't less intelligent | New Scientist
The idea that the rise of tech means today's young people are less intelligent than previous generations is rife – but wrong, says neuroscientist Dean Burnett
tech isn’t the future it’s just capitalism faster
responding with slowness in relations
A Lost Secret: How To Get Kids To Pay Attention
Maya kids do better on tests measuring attention, researchers say it's because these kids have something that many American kids have lost.
A Dark Consensus About Screens and Kids Begins to Emerge in Silicon Valley (Published 2018)
“I am convinced the devil lives in our phones.”
Grandpa Had a Pension. This Generation Has Cryptocurrency. (Published 2017)
After years as a niche market for technologically sophisticated anarchists and libertarians, digital coins may be on the verge of going mainstream.
Technological parables and iconic illustrations: American technocracy and the rhetoric of the technological fix
This paper traces the role of American technocrats in popularizing the notion later dubbed the ‘technological fix’. Channeled by their long-term ‘chief’, Howard Scott, their claim was that technolo...
Sony Revolution