Ellen Goodman, Washington Post Writers Group. July 18, 2008. We plan our own pensions and assemble our own cheap furniture. I pray the Internet ad for a do-it-yourself eye surgery kit is a hoax.
Annalee Newitz, AlterNet. July 2, 2008. After 9 long years, it's time to move on. One final thought: don't ever stop ruthlessly criticizing everything that exists.
Jayati Vora, AlterNet. May 23, 2008. More and more voices from around the globe are finding a place on the Internet -- even in countries where Web filters and censorship are the norm.
Annalee Newitz, AlterNet. May 22, 2008. We need to organize and actively make things uncomfortable for the companies trying to regulate our use of online technologies.
Stephen Pizzo, News for Real. April 26, 2008. The government scraps an expensive prototype of its highly touted "virtual fence" -- a multimillion-dollar waste of taxpayer money.
Andrew Lam, New America Media. April 23, 2008. Our modern obsession with technology is changing the way we relate to others -- and the way we view ourselves.
Marcy Darnovsky, AlterNet. March 22, 2008. 1997's 'Gattaca' featured a bleak future world ruled by bio-engineered superhumans -- an outcome that no longer seems far-fetched.
Annalee Newitz, AlterNet. February 6, 2008. Our brave new infrastructure is failing around us even as we claim that it offers a shining path to the future.
Peter Swire, Think Progress AlterNet: PEEK. February 5, 2008. This proposal repeats the mistakes of the Federal Intrusion Detection Network, which proposed similar monitoring of private systems in 1999.
Annalee Newitz, AlterNet. January 8, 2008. The amount of information in the world is always expanding faster than the data storage systems available to capture it.
Annalee Newitz, AlterNet. January 3, 2008. Gizmos that a decade ago would have been viewed entirely as communications tools and toys are now potential surveillance and killing machines.
Jessica Clark, In These Times. November 29, 2007. The growth in political discussion has exploded through digital technology, but virtual democracy is still far from addressing election theft and other problems with our electoral system.
Bruce E. Levine, Chelsea Green Publishing. November 26, 2007. It would be a lot easier to address the increasing rate of depression among Americans if we weren't so afraid to admit that our consumer society makes us unhappy.
Ellen Goodman, Washington Post Writers Group. November 9, 2007. New technologies are allowing parents to take watching their children to creepy, new heights.
Tom Regan, Christian Science Monitor. October 18, 2007. Emails sent by a company's workers are projected to increase 27 percent this year. But is email actually decreasing productivity in the workplace?
Annalee Newitz, AlterNet. October 16, 2007. Moaning Lisa demonstrates the videogame-like properties of the female body -- to give it an orgasm you have to follow different patterns every time.
Annalee Newitz, AlterNet. October 10, 2007. Instant Messenger is a medium of communication somewhere between e-mail, which can be too slow, and the phone, which can be too fast.
Norman Solomon, AlterNet. September 12, 2007. As the autumn of 2007 begins, the reality of Uncle Sam as an unhinged mega-killer haunts a large minority of Americans.
