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
The fact that he couldn't feel the drill going into the back of his skull made the noise all the more terrifying.Wired From ACM Opinion | August 7, 2015
It's not a game or social media site, but OldNYC.org is as addictive as Angry Birds and as time consuming as Facebook.Wired From ACM Opinion | July 24, 2015
When sci-fi author Andy Weir went to visit mission control at NASA's Johnson Space Center, the International Space Station was going through a crisis—an air leak...Wired From ACM Opinion | July 22, 2015
Extreme weather events, changes in precipitation levels, species migration and extinction—climate change promises so many fun things. But why wait?Wired From ACM Opinion | July 17, 2015
Internet companies make billions of dollars by capturing one of the world's most precious commodities: your attention.Wired From ACM Opinion | June 24, 2015
If it's not already a maxim, it should be: Every big hack discovered will eventually prove to be more serious than first believed.Wired From ACM Opinion | June 15, 2015
About a decade and a half ago, the neuroscience world got super-stoked about a sexy new way to look at living brains: functional magnetic resonance imaging.Wired From ACM Opinion | May 28, 2015
Edward Snowden appears to have a thing for the late British conservative prime minister Margaret Thatcher. And his obsession may even be clouding his famously paranoid...Wired From ACM Opinion | April 14, 2015
Governments and corporations gather, store, and analyze the tremendous amount of data we chuff out as we move through our digitized lives.Wired From ACM Opinion | March 26, 2015
After more than a decade of debate and a record-setting proceeding that attracted nearly 4 million public comments, the time to settle the Net Neutrality question...Wired From ACM Opinion | February 4, 2015
Have you ever thought about why doorknobs are positioned at around two-fifths of the door's height, instead of right in the middle? Or why a washing machine is...Wired From ACM Opinion | January 22, 2015