Ideas
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Curb Your Food Tech Enthusiasm
There are two problems with this approach. First, the promises of technologies meant to reduce emissions from agriculture often far…
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Why Is It So Hard to Believe In Other People’s Pain?
Hostile suspicion of others, encompassing everything from the position of their mask to their stance on mandates, has marked this…
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Now Isn’t the Time to Give Users Control of Their Data
The testimony of Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen sparked the latest flare-up in a never-ending series of revelations on how companies…
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Fungi Could Be the Downfall of Humanity
There are plenty of things in this world that might keep you up at night. There’s COVID-19, of course, but…
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What Are You Going to Tweet After You Die?
Few people “plan for how their own deaths will impact social media,” says Katie Gach, a digital ethnographer at the…
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The Future of Digital Assistants Is Queer
Queering the smart wife could mean, in its simplest form, affording digital assistants different personalities that more accurately represent the…
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Humans Are On Track to Export Our Environmental Problems to Space
To be clear, space is not exactly the Wild West. The 1967 Outer Space Treaty—the Magna Carta of space law—set…
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Patient Testimonials Are Unethical And Should Be Banned
Still, he says, a doctor seeking any gift must always consider: “Is the patient really in a vulnerable position where…
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How Apps Commandeered the Age-Old Idea of Takeout
At the turn of this century, when Seamless was launched, mostly as a tool for offices to place large orders…
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India’s New Rules for Map Data Betray Its Small Farmers
The geospatial data regulations are part of a bigger picture. They’re the latest in a series of reforms—land reforms, proposed…
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