California’s Silicon Valley has become almost a parody of itself — and definitely a pending referendum on late-stage capitalism. As in the tech bubble of the late 1990s, the entire Bay Area is...
Going back to my roots. See ya very soon BALI!” declared a jubilant 20-year-old Joshua* on Facebook, just a while before boarding the plane that would take him to his fatherland. It was 17th of...
The Federal Communications Commission has just issued a landmark ruling to reclassify broadband internet services as a utility, over the protests of industry giants like Comcast and AT&T, along...
The US is in an ecstasy of delight: At precisely the moment when everyone is done with their families, desperate for a reason to retreat into their bunkholes, and starting to weary of vacation, the...
Anyone who has been near an undergrad philosophy class in the last 50 years will tell you that the theme of the Other has been a constant among the world's thinkers. From Marxism to...
Apple has been the gravitational center of hip technology for the better part of two generations. The combination of sleek design, eminently functional gadgets, cross-device syncing and...
It’s almost touching, really, to remember the era in which we could be scandalized by a single celebrity nude. In the 2000s, a simple photo of Britney Spears getting out of a cab without panties,...
Big data is a big deal and Americans are of two minds about it. In this case, though, the division of attitudes doesn’t break along the expected good/bad line. Instead, American attitudes about it...
On April 14 about 300 schoolgirls were kidnapped by the Boko Haram terrorist organisation in Nigeria. The girls, committing the heinous crime of desiring an education, were taken by the Islamist...
Fox is building up its reputation in the thriller genre with The Following, which follows (forgive me) in the footsteps of programming like 24. Starring Kevin Bacon as Ryan Hardy, an ex-FBI agent...
