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Abstract The consumer internet has exacerbated the discrimination problem. The business model that sits behind the front end of the internet industry is one that focuses on the unchecked collection of personal information, the continual creation and refineme…

This is a version of a keynote talk I gave at EYEO 2017 in Minneapolis. Id like to start off by saying that this talk is grounded in a particular location, and that is the Morcom Amphitheatre of Roses in Oakland, California, otherwise known simply as the ros…

The question is not at all hypothetical. Much of the coverage of Twitter CEO Jack Dorseys ongoing press tour has focused on splashier news, like him appearing on the podcast of antivaxxer Ben Greenfield to recount his alarming personal health practices. Bu…

The question is not at all hypothetical. Much of the coverage of Twitter CEO Jack Dorseys ongoing press tour has focused on splashier news, like him appearing on the podcast of antivaxxer Ben Greenfield to recount his alarming personal health practices. But …

Facebooks Memories featurewhere it shows you pictures and posts from a day in the recent or far-gone pastused to be my favorite thing about the platform. I mean, I have posted some hilarious things that my son said when he was little, and that time I went on …

Sajid Javid, UK Home Secretary. Credit: Foreign Office via Flickr/CC BY 2.0. A school playground in England, 1997. I am 12 years old. I am walking towards the entrance where my mother is waiting to drive me home. I am giddy with excitement during the journey…

Broken Facebook screen - JOEL SAGET/AFP/Getty Images Molly Wood, host of Marketplace Tech, is an ongoing contributor to Wired's Ideas section. Her latest column is below. Facebooks Memories feature where it shows you pictures and posts from a day in the rec…

I do not share the sentiments of those that say digital is merely a marketing ‘channel’, but I do believe that the noise about digital transformation has given rise to some thorny misconceptions. One is that personalisation is somehow the end-game of marketin…

1.Simon, H. A. The Sciences of the Artificial (MIT Press, Cambridge, 1969). Simon asks whether there can be a science of the artificial that produces knowledge about artificial objects and phenomena. 2.Milner, R. A modal characterisation of observable machin…

1.Simon, H. A. The Sciences of the Artificial (MIT Press, Cambridge, 1969). Simon asks whether there can be a science of the artificial that produces knowledge about artificial objects and phenomena. 2.Milner, R. A modal characterisation of observable machin…