From Communications of the ACM
Digital innovation is not working in the interest of the whole of society. It is time to radically rethink its purpose without…
Filippo Gualtiero Blancato| March 1, 2024
Sometime before dawn on March 29th, not too many hours after Congress approved legislation that allows Internet-service providers to sell your browsing historyInternet...The New Yorker From ACM Opinion | April 5, 2017
Last month, Mark Clattenburg, who is generally regarded as one of the finest referees in professional soccer, left England's Premier League for a better-paying...The New Yorker From ACM Opinion | March 31, 2017
Standing in a pink desert landscape, I looked down and realized I'd become a robot, with skinny metal legs and pincers for hands.
The New Yorker From ACM Opinion | January 26, 2017
Earlier this month, on his HBO show "Last Week Tonight," John Oliver skewered media companies' desperate search for clicks.The New Yorker From ACM Opinion | August 26, 2016
If reality is a game—a vast, snow-globe-y sort of experiment that plays out according to the hard rules of physics and the loose rules of story—then it is, in contemporary...The New Yorker From ACM Opinion | August 12, 2016
Back in March, James Michael McAdoo, the power forward for the Golden State Warriors, tweeted out a photo of himself in the training room, sporting a pair of slick...The New Yorker From ACM Opinion | June 16, 2016
Last week, Elon Musk, the billionaire founder of Tesla Motors, SpaceX, and other cutting-edge companies, took a surprising question at the Code Conference, a technology...The New Yorker From ACM Opinion | June 13, 2016
If Kitchen, a five-minute virtual-reality demo created by the Japanese studio Capcom, were a short film, few viewers would be moved to panic by its misery of horror...The New Yorker From ACM Opinion | May 16, 2016
The radio signal that is the lifeblood of the Global Positioning System originates from a constellation of twenty-four satellites, orbiting more than twelve thousand...The New Yorker From ACM Opinion | May 9, 2016
Two years ago, at the American Museum of Natural History, in New York, I witnessed David Edwards receive what he claimed was the world's first transatlantic ...The New Yorker From ACM Opinion | April 27, 2016
It's welcome news that the Federal Bureau of Investigation has dropped its legal effort to force Apple to help it create a method of accessing data on a lockedSan...The New Yorker From ACM Opinion | April 6, 2016
"I'm a skeptic of 3-D, but when I saw the paintings I knew I had to use it," Werner Herzog told Judith Thurman in 2010, after the New York première of his documentary...The New Yorker From ACM Opinion | January 13, 2016
On April 1, 2009, Google unveiled Gmail Autopilot, a plug-in that promised to read and generate contextually relevant replies to the messages piling up in users'...The New Yorker From ACM Opinion | December 11, 2015
This summer, American Psychologist, the official journal of the American Psychological Association, released a special issue on the topic of bullying and victimization...The New Yorker From ACM Opinion | October 26, 2015
In 1970, Life magazine published an article about a Stanford University research project that had resulted in the construction of what it called the first-ever...The New Yorker From ACM Opinion | October 2, 2015
It is possible, according to many sources, to become invisible, but you must be patient, methodical, and willing to eat almost anything.The New Yorker From ACM Opinion | September 1, 2015