Behavior & Society
Stretched Too Thin by Social Media
Beware its power to reshape your web of relationships
Stories by Brett Frischmann
Policy & Ethics
Electronic Contracts and the Illusion of Consent
The ubiquitous "click-to-agree" mechanism presses people to act like machines
Behavior & Society
Is Smart Technology Making Us Dumb?
Yes and no: there are reasonable arguments on both sides of the question
Policy & Ethics
How Personalization Leads to Homogeneity
Tech companies are perpetuating a bleak view of humans as programmable cogs
Environment
The Tragedy of the Commons, Revisited
A classic study of the perils of resource sharing, with implications for how we deal with climate, has been updated
Behavior & Society
There's Nothing Wrong with Being a Luddite
It enables critical reflection and evaluation of the technological world we’re building...
Policy & Ethics
The Misleading Power of Internet Metaphors
If you use terms such as “cloud,” “smart” or “Internet of Things,” you’re fooling yourself and everyone else
Policy & Ethics
Algorithm and Blues: The Tyranny of the Coming Smart-Tech Utopia
Why optimizing the world for efficiency, productivity and happiness is bad for humanity
Behavior & Society
How Facebook Programmed Our Relatives
A simple experiment reveals how social media has come to encode a range of social behaviors
