Dept. of Acid Trips

Facebook Can’t Be Fixed.

Facebook’s fundamental problem is not…

Dept. Of Predictable Externalities

How GDPR Kills The Innovation Economy

It wasn’t supposed to turn out this way.

The End of Democratic Capitalism?

In bowing to China, Apple forces us to contemplate the true role of…

Pinterest’s Third Way

Ben Silbermann and company have built tech’s most misunderstood platform. 2018 could be the year it breaks out with a model markedly distinct from its Valley cousins.

The Future of Advertising Is In the Hands of Ad Blockers

Young adults are hungry for the ad industry to be better. They are right.

Maybe Facebook Should Abandon the News Feed Altogether.

By devaluing journalism, Facebook risks abandoning the public square. By becoming a true platform, it could *build* that square.

Facebook: Tear Down This Wall.

Instead of kicking data brokers off its platform, Facebook should empower its entire user base to be their own brokers of data.

Is This the Society We Really Want?

Technology’s march is taken as gospel. But if we’ve learned anything from the past year, it’s that Valley giants often miss key human externalities. Case in point…

Panicked about Kids’ Addiction to Tech?

Here are two things you could do