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
Tragedy, when its cause and the fate of its victims are still unknown, is supposed to occasion solidarity.The New Yorker From ACM Opinion | March 21, 2014
For more than a year now, tens of millions of Americans have found time each day to devote themselves to an essential task: swiping at their phones and tablets...The New Yorker From ACM Opinion | March 10, 2014
Last September, the Times reported that Voyager 1, the hardy spacecraft launched in 1977, had exited the solar system and entered the interstellar void.The New Yorker From ACM Opinion | February 24, 2014
It was a mild October day in Hollywood, but a trace of artificial snow remained on the ground as Neil deGrasse Tyson, the director of the Hayden Planetarium, at...The New Yorker From ACM Opinion | February 19, 2014
In January of 1903, the small Boston magazine Handicraft ran an essay by the Harvard professor Denman W. Ross, who argued that the American Arts and Crafts movement...The New Yorker From ACM Opinion | January 7, 2014
A couple of weeks ago, shortly after the Amazon C.E.O. Jeff Bezos unveiled, on "60 Minutes," that his company plans to deliver packages to customers with a swarm...The New Yorker From ACM Opinion | December 23, 2013
When users of Lavabit, an encrypted e-mail service, logged on to the site this past August, they found a bewildering letter on the site's main page.The New Yorker From ACM News | November 13, 2013
If the New York Times's latest article is to be believed, artificial intelligence is moving so fast it sometimes seems almost "magical."The New Yorker From ACM Opinion | October 31, 2013
When Barnes & Noble announced, a couple of weeks ago, that its Nook division lost almost five hundred million dollars last year and that its C.E.O. was resigning...The New Yorker From ACM Opinion | July 24, 2013
In the summer of 2011, while he was fighting an indictment for alleged computer crimes, Aaron Swartz, an information activist, read Kafka’s "The Trial" and ...The New Yorker From ACM Opinion | July 2, 2013
An extraordinary fuss about eavesdropping started in the spring of 1844, when Giuseppe Mazzini, an Italian exile in London, became convinced that the British government...The New Yorker From ACM Opinion | June 18, 2013
After the Boston Marathon bombings, the process by which breaking news and information are generated and disseminated looked more ragged and exposed than ever: ...The New Yorker From ACM Opinion | April 29, 2013
When Markus Persson visited Las Vegas in 2011, for the first international convention held in honor of Minecraft, the video game he designed and built, a young...The New Yorker From ACM Opinion | April 8, 2013
Recently, I created an app called Petting Zoo. It is an interactive app for iPhones and iPads, and creating it was a difficult but interesting process.The New Yorker From ACM Opinion | April 1, 2013
Google's driver-less cars are already street-legal in three states, California, Florida, and Nevada, and some day similar devices may not just be possible but mandatory...The New Yorker From ACM Opinion | November 27, 2012
Steve Jobs is dead. One big question is whether the unbelievably innovative culture he forged will live. Jobs was not a great human being, but he was a great,...The New Yorker From ACM Opinion | October 6, 2011
For many Americans, March Madness has been a time to worry about office pools, busted brackets, and buzzer beaters. For American businesses, though, the N.C.A...The New Yorker From ACM Opinion | April 5, 2011