Blinded By The Ads

Does advertising make everything worse? One of the mini-blinds in my living room is starting to show age. I Googled something, or maybe Amazon heard me mention blinds. But now […]
Parents Move Washington On Big Tech

Senate hearings are often “kabuki theater,“ as explained by a friend of mine who has been to many of them. But it may just be that yesterday‘s hearings were different. […]
Meta Lawsuit Shines Bright Light On Painful Profits

Depending on how you look at it, Oct. 25 was either a very good or a very bad day for Meta and its two primary products, Instagram and Facebook.First, the […]
Sherry Turkle: Empathy, Solitude, Power Of ‘The Boring Bits’

by Steven Rosenbaum, Sustainable Media Center Sherry Turkle is a philosopher who thinks about the nature of being human, at a time when technology is turning our social world upside […]