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
If you want to understand the potential of 3D Touch, the new of method of tapping and pressing on the screens of the latest iPhones, forget about the marketing...Wired From ACM Opinion | October 5, 2015
There's something about the Red Planet—so close yet so far, inhospitable yet perhaps not totally uninhabitable—that keeps us dreaming about getting there one day...Wired From ACM Opinion | September 30, 2015
There are seminal books, movies, articles, and more that you've been meaning to get to but just haven't made the time for.Wired From ACM Opinion | September 1, 2015
The Making of Stanley Kubrick’s "2001: A Space Odyssey" documents in nearly scientific detail exactly that: the story of how the iconic science-fiction film came...Wired From ACM Opinion | August 20, 2015
In the build up to the 2016 U.S. election, both Democratic and Republican presidential hopefuls are talking about cybersecurity—and specifically state-sponsored...Wired From ACM Opinion | August 14, 2015
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
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
"You never get a second chance to make a first impression" was the tagline for a Head & Shoulders shampoo ad campaign in the 1980s. It unfortunately encapsulates...Wired From ACM Opinion | April 7, 2015