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..

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..

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

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

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….

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….

Human beings either function as individuals or as members of a pack. There's a switch inside us, deep in our spirit, that you can turn one way or the….

An economy where advertisers thrive while journalists and artists struggle, reflects the values of a society more interested in deception and manipul….

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

The network by itself is meaningless. Only the people were ever meaningful..

We should talk about the ultimate cause of war. It's a question we should never stop asking, because if we do, there's a chance, however remote, that….

It is impossible to work in information technology without also engaging in social engineering..

Humans change themselves through technology..

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

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 ….

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