Stories by Annalee Newitz
Sometimes it's important to remember that not everything in my life is digital.
Posted on Oct 1, 2003, Source: AlterNet
If file sharing is legislated out of existence, hapless consumers like you and me will never be able to learn about the glories of the boob toggle.
Posted on Sep 23, 2003, Source: AlterNet
These days you need to consult with lawyers at the Electronic Frontier Foundation just to do a little educational hacking of your game console.
Posted on Sep 17, 2003, Source: AlterNet
The Xbox has been crippled by its corporate masters. But this magnificent device could be a fully functioning computer with an operating system, applications, everything!
Posted on Sep 9, 2003, Source: AlterNet
What can we learn about Arnold's character based on his online manifestations?
Posted on Aug 28, 2003, Source: AlterNet
Imagine a future in which nanobots take over the world by rebuilding humans on a molecular level and turn them into raw materials for their bizarre, mystical new society.
Posted on Aug 20, 2003, Source: AlterNet
An amazing confluence of events conspired to get me thinking about remote-controlled vibrators and electronic voting systems.
Posted on Aug 12, 2003, Source: AlterNet
Smell is the underdog of the five senses. When was the last time you had an impassioned debate or even an in-depth discussion about your olfactory perceptions?
Posted on Aug 5, 2003, Source: AlterNet
I like to violate copyright everyday. I think of creative works as if they were somehow human, as if they had lives of their own.
Posted on Jul 30, 2003, Source: AlterNet
A couple of zealots in Sacramento started a Web site at www.the-brights.net for an ancient special-interest group whose image apparently needs a face-lift: atheists.
Posted on Jul 22, 2003, Source: AlterNet
A new breed of racism has come to Silicon Valley. High-tech types are running scared from -- gasp! -- Indian engineers.
Posted on Jul 15, 2003, Source: AlterNet
Sidekicks, mutants, and goddesses – what makes superhero culture so gay.
Posted on Jul 11, 2003, Source: AlterNet
Theo de Raadt is the evil computer genius your script kiddie friends warned you about.
Posted on Jul 8, 2003, Source: AlterNet
Internet content filters: It's a great victory for conservatives -- blocking access to 'naughty' Web sites could also block access to 'naughty' books.
Posted on Jul 2, 2003, Source: AlterNet
Microsoft is striking yet again to undermine the credibility of Linux, a free, open source operating system that Microsoft considers one of the greatest threats to its empire.
Posted on Jun 23, 2003, Source: AlterNet
Activists imagine a world where the free full text of every scientific paper is available to everybody in the universe.
Posted on Jun 16, 2003, Source: AlterNet
By keeping some regulation in place, the FCC is making a very weak stab at maintaining broadcast diversity.
Posted on Jun 10, 2003, Source: AlterNet
'The Matrix Reloaded' is punctuated by two graphic, extended -- and rather lame -- sex sequences. Is this a radical statement, or just the fulfillment of a nerd fantasy?
Posted on Jun 4, 2003, Source: AlterNet
The finale of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" has our surly media nerd waxing morose.
Posted on May 19, 2003, Source: AlterNet
The Phoenix man who recently overdosed on prescription drugs live on the Internet wasn't just a victim of drugs. He was also a victim of the war on drugs.
Posted on May 13, 2003, Source: AlterNet
Radio frequency identification chips attached to cars and clothing are threatening our privacy.
Posted on May 6, 2003, Source: AlterNet
PayPal doesn't want to do business with the adult-industry. But it's got to do more than that to clean up its act.
Posted on Apr 22, 2003, Source: AlterNet
Cuba's recent crackdown on dissident journalists mirrors an attack on electronic privacy by the entertainment industry.
Posted on Apr 14, 2003, Source: AlterNet
U.S. privacy laws allow public surveillance because, their proponents say, you have no reasonable expectation of privacy on the street.
Posted on Apr 8, 2003, Source: AlterNet
In order to soothe fears of terrorist attacks, the author visits MIT's nuclear reactor that's open for tours.
Posted on Apr 1, 2003, Source: AlterNet
My disgust with mass-mediated news about the war in Iraq drove me to consume fantastical versions of the same thing in "Children of Dune."
Posted on Mar 25, 2003, Source: AlterNet
In the Feds' new child-porn crackdown, you can go to prison for five years for just visiting a child porn site by accident, through the magic of spam.
Posted on Mar 18, 2003, Source: AlterNet
When it feels like my access to knowledge is being tightly regulated, it's only natural that I would start frantically trolling the Internet.
Posted on Mar 11, 2003, Source: AlterNet
The origins of identity profiling like John Poindexter's Total Information Awareness can be traced back to the strange physiognomic obsessions of a 19th-century Belgian mathematician named Adolphe Quetelet.
Posted on Mar 4, 2003, Source: AlterNet
In our current antiterrorist frenzy, the attack on Microsoft SQL servers came to embody everything we fear about so-called information warfare.
Posted on Feb 25, 2003, Source: AlterNet
Feminists like me used to complain that sexist culture forces chicks to obsess over their weight and hate themselves.
Posted on Feb 17, 2003, Source: AlterNet
Cuba isn't quite the repressive, free speech-crushing environment the U.S. government would have us believe it is.
Posted on Feb 10, 2003, Source: AlterNet
I went to Cuba with several other MIT students to learn more about the country's highly successful science and health programs.
Posted on Feb 4, 2003, Source: AlterNet
TECHSPLOITATION: Free Copy
Posted on Jan 27, 2003, Source: AlterNet
Women may be concerned about lack of representation or unequal pay, but don't say corporate capitalism never did anything for you. Now it's given you your very own sexual disease.
Posted on Jan 13, 2003, Source: AlterNet
A retro-futuristing trend in science fiction movies is creating nostalgia for the future, a future that people once imagined could be sexy, fun, and revolutionary all at the same time.
Posted on Jan 6, 2003, Source: AlterNet
America's breeding obsession has gotten a little weirder lately with Clonaid's culty cloned human announcement and the government's carpet ban on stem cell and cloning research.
Posted on Jan 2, 2003, Source: AlterNet
Apparently wireless computer networks are spreading everywhere like some kind of commie menace, soiling our precious military spectrum and making it possible for crafty terrorist hackers to get free Internet access.
Posted on Dec 23, 2002, Source: AlterNet
I have changed my mind about the nature part of the nature-versus-nurture debate.
Posted on Dec 16, 2002, Source: AlterNet
Having recently read an interesting unpublished essay by Lauren Slater on the 1960s Milgram experiments, I am now certain that reality television is unethical.
Posted on Dec 10, 2002, Source: AlterNet
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