Electronic Contracts and the Illusion of Consent
The ubiquitous "click-to-agree" mechanism presses people to act like machines
Stories by Brett Frischmann
Is Smart Technology Making Us Dumb?
Yes and no: there are reasonable arguments on both sides of the question
How Personalization Leads to Homogeneity
Tech companies are perpetuating a bleak view of humans as programmable cogs
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
There's Nothing Wrong with Being a Luddite
It enables critical reflection and evaluation of the technological world we’re building...
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
Algorithm and Blues: The Tyranny of the Coming Smart-Tech Utopia
Why optimizing the world for efficiency, productivity and happiness is bad for humanity
How Facebook Programmed Our Relatives
A simple experiment reveals how social media has come to encode a range of social behaviors
