One thing I point out is, a lot of people tooting the horn of amateurism, actually, these people were professionals. Some are professors who are empl….

I would like people to be more aware of the fact that ultimately we are paying for things, and it's not just as privacy advocates point out that we'r….

The market won't let us treat all data equally because there's a potential to make huge gobs of money not doing that. In the United States of America….

My point, though, is that if lines have indeed shifted, it's not so much that the younger generation just doesn't care, it's that we have ceded more ….

We like to say the Internet is the ultimate library. But libraries are libraries because people come together and fund them through taxes. Libraries ….

It's not just that we all as individuals should reevaluate our relationship with our devices - maybe you should, on a personal level - but in terms o….

One connection I see between the work I did on philosophy and my work on technology is that both communities tend to mystify and create an atmosphere….

Technology isn't simply addictive - it's addictive because it's a servant to business incentives. There are huge departments in these companies that ….

One consequence of this is that people are expected to make it on their own by chasing clicks or building a brand. What a diminished vision that is..

Are we on the tail-end of a generation that is enamored with the novelty of these devices and will younger people coming of age be more blasé about t….

One thing that's important to point out is that this kind of populism has a long and mixed history. It's part of this tradition of problematic anti-e….

How valiant to deny the importance of money when it is had in abundance..

I mean look at all these acquisitions and mergers - WhatsApp and Oculus and et cetera. There's no way that you can envision these tech companies as t….

There's something odd about telling people, artists, that they need to work for free to be pure while you're sitting there getting a salary that ulti….

Art and culture are nonetheless vital, essential even, to what it means to be human, yet digital abundance has diminished our sense of their worth..

I work for free all the time, as a writer but also as an activist. The decisions we have to make as individuals are really fraught but also can be re….

New media companies look remarkably like the old ones they aspire to replace: male, pale, and privileged..

Basically political economy - that you have to look at how funding structures shape the media landscape. You have to look at commercial interests, co….

I was shocked when I tried to articulate this to someone who had posted the film and asked them to remove it for a few months, and I actually told th….

One of the big myths about people growing up is that they are "digital natives;" that just because they've been raised with the Internet - that you'r….

Not to be to be a vulgar materialist or be too reductive, but all of that was completely absent from the conversation. Instead we were told it was a ….