Something Weird Is Happening on Facebook
Someone appears to be pouring enormous energy and effort into a data collection project aimed at building personality profiles from social media interaction…again
Category: Technology
Our Next Climate Crisis Will Be Much Worse
Humanity will wake up to a strange new power over our planet with no guide on how to use it.
Facebook May Be Democracy’s Best Hope
From polarization to spam, the problems of social media are the problems of democracy.
Amazon’s New Homeless Shelter
A corporate homeless shelter is not a feel-good moment. It’s a warning.
The Long View
Look closely at our dilemma, and you see not decline, but leadership. We are being buffeted by the first waves of a storm spreading around the world. We’re not worst, but merely first.
Voting Machines, Fake News, and the Future of Democracy
The biggest threat to the integrity of our elections isn’t the machines, but the users.
Democracy in the Age of the Algorithm
Breaking up the Russian/Republican project might end that particular campaign, but it won’t disarm this cheap, readily available weapon, just waiting to be used again.
SCOTTeVEST, Fox News, and a Dunning-Kruger nightmare
A shrinking world and the exponential explosion of computing power has sparked a biological arms race with no certain outcome, unleashing a Dunning-Kruger nightmare.