I'm hoping the reader can see that artificial intelligence is better understood as a belief system instead of a technology..

The nerd flavor of masculinity has overwhelmed the macho kind in real-life power dynamics, and therefore in popular culture..

One good test of whether an economy is humanistic or not is the plausibility of earning the ability to drop out of it for a while without incident or….

What is extraordinary is that in the United States the current culture desires feelings of machismo and power, but at the same time has absolutely no….

If there's any object in human experience that's a precedent for what a computer should be like, it's a musical instrument: a device where you can ex….

Advertisers and marketers should be looking to bring new experiences to different parts of the brain. It's a more profound idea than just dropping a ….

The cloud is driven by statistics, and even in the worst individual cases of personal ignorance, dullness, idleness, or irrelevance, every person is ….

If you want to know what's really going on in a society or ideology, follow the money. If money is flowing to advertising instead of musicians, journ….

Create a website that expresses something about who you are that won't fit into the template available to you on a social networking site..

Separation anxiety is assuaged by constant connection. Young people announce every detail of their lives on services like Twitter not to show off, bu….

Google's thing is not advertising because it's not a romanticizing operation. It doesn't involve expression. It's a link. What they're doing is selli….

I'm not in any sense anti-Facebook..

Back in the 1980s, when the internet was only available to a small number of pioneers, I was often confronted by people who feared that the strange t….

Services like Google and Facebook only exist because of the social acceptance of a mass amount of distributed volunteer labor from tons and tons of p….

Of all the things you can spend a lot of money on, the only things you expect to fail frequently are software and medicine..

If we allow our self-congratulatory adoration of technology to distract us from our own contact with each other, then somehow the original agenda has….

It's as if you kneel to plant the seed of a tree and it grows so fast that it swallows your whole town before you can even rise to your feet..

I mean, you can't have advertising be the only official business of the information economy if the information economy is going to take over..

America's Facebook generation shows a submission to standardization that I haven't seen before. The American adventure has always been about people f….

A market economy cannot thrive absent the well-being of average people, even in a gilded age..

In history, in most cultures, and at most points in time, if you want to find the most advanced technologies, you can look principally in two places.….