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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
It's the end of October, when the days have already grown short in Redmond, Washington, and gray sheets of rain are just beginning to let up.Wired From ACM Opinion | January 21, 2015
Ross Ulbricht is finally getting his day in court, 15 months after plainclothes FBI agents grabbed him in the science fiction section of a San Francisco library...Wired From ACM Opinion | January 13, 2015
The leap second is the rare and obscure practice of occasionally adding a second to the Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) system that most of us use to set our watches...Wired From ACM Opinion | January 9, 2015
As the clock strikes midnight on the new year, so begins the countdown to a new round of security threats and breaches that doubtless will unfold in 2015. But this...Wired From ACM Opinion | January 5, 2015
Here at Wired Science, we're big fans of science graphics. And not just the fancy, big-budget ones, but charts and figures and visualizations: the folk art of scientific...Wired From ACM Opinion | December 23, 2014
On a sunny afternoon in May, 2009, seven astronauts strapped themselves into the space shuttle Atlantis and rocketed toward the heavens.Wired From ACM Opinion | December 5, 2014
President Obama rattled the internet this week when he unloaded his opinion on net neutrality, the notion that all internet traffic should be treated equally.Wired From ACM Opinion | November 14, 2014
A few months ago I made the trek to the sylvan campus of the IBM research labs in Yorktown Heights, New York, to catch an early glimpse of the fast-arriving, long...Wired From ACM Opinion | October 27, 2014
Have you ever loved a car? Maybe it was an old truck you drove for hundreds of thousands of miles, or maybe it was your very first car: where you had your very...Wired From ACM Opinion | September 15, 2014
John Martinis is one of the world's foremost experts on quantum computing, a growing field of science that aims to process information at super high speeds using...Wired From ACM Opinion | September 8, 2014
For all of its history, the Internet has enjoyed the fruits of an openness principle: the idea that anyone can reach any site online and that information and data...Wired From ACM Opinion | August 22, 2014