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Digital innovation is not working in the interest of the whole of society. It is time to radically rethink its purpose without…
Filippo Gualtiero Blancato| March 1, 2024
Back in 2004, I was awakened early one morning by a loud clatter. I ran outside, only to discover that a car had smashed into the corner of my house.IEEE Spectrum From ACM Opinion | March 12, 2013
Harvard faculty members responded with shock after the Boston Globe revealed that theuniversity’s administration had searched 16 faculty deans’ email accounts to...Slate From ACM Opinion | March 12, 2013
Appearing like a retro-futuristic apparition, digitally transmitted through pneumatic tubes from a future that was but will never be, the disembodied head of Kim...NBC News From ACM Opinion | March 12, 2013
As successful as Samsung's Galaxy S franchise is now, it's easy to forget the Korean consumer electronics giant's first attempt at the American smartphone market...CNET From ACM Opinion | March 12, 2013
How do you build a search engine that's more attuned to natural language, capable of divining what you mean, and giving back what you want?Slashdot From ACM Opinion | March 11, 2013
Where do you go when you're arguably history’s most famous video game designer in a medium that's witnessed explosive growth since its halcyon days?Time From ACM Opinion | March 11, 2013
For a man that made his career out of helping millions of people find their way around, Lars Rasmussen is frank about his own navigational shortcomings.BBC News From ACM Opinion | March 8, 2013
Tapping your phone on a console to pay for fries and a Coke is cool. Yet until the stars align, it's not how you'll be using NFC, the Near Field Communications...CNET From ACM Opinion | March 6, 2013
Our users trust Google with a lot of very important data, whether it’s emails, photos, documents, posts or videos.Google Public Policy Blog From ACM Opinion | March 6, 2013
Last March, I wrote in Slate about eye-tracking, which could allow computers and smartphones of the future to collect information not only about what we read, but...Slate From ACM Opinion | March 6, 2013
Consider the tongue. It's sensitive yet muscular, packed with taste buds and nerves, and without its acrobatic ability humans wouldn’t be able to eat or talk. It's...Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM Opinion | March 5, 2013
In the face of increasing government-led crackdowns on social media, Google Inc. should not force Internet users to reveal their real names for some services, including...Reuters From ACM Opinion | March 5, 2013
Evernote became the latest member of the "we’ve been hacked" club. And the thing is, what was once a pretty exclusive club now lets just about everyone in these...Wired From ACM Opinion | March 5, 2013
After 1,000 days in pretrial detention, Private Bradley Manning offered a modified guilty plea for passing classified materials to WikiLeaks. But his case is far...The New Republic From ACM Opinion | March 4, 2013
I had the pleasure of spending some time with Cory Doctorow on Feb. 25 at the Jefferson Hotel here in the nation's capital.The Washington Post From ACM Opinion | March 4, 2013
Video games, as their name suggests, combine the ancient human practice of formal play with moving pictures, a younger form.The New York Times From ACM Opinion | March 4, 2013