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The artist and filmmaker muses on the usefulness and limitations of the Internet, revealing, in the process, his philosophy about art and the role of the artist in our digital […]
The abolition of the sex trades will only happen when countries eliminate (as opposed to relocate) demand for sex workers.
The first time I came across this new phenomenon was in my interview with Jeff Evans, one of the co-founders of MindSnacks back in August 2010. When I asked him […]
Lebanon, a country plagued by slow Internet, was a popular choice for an International Emmy for "Digital Program: Fiction" at Cannes for its drama series Shankaboot.
Nicole Ferraro says Facebook is somewhat upfront about how many people actually use its site but Twitter claims it has 175 million registered users yet fails to say how many are active.
A Swiss court says Google must guarantee all faces and license plates photographed as part of its Street View maps are unrecognizable, even though Google says it'll cost too much.
Moore's Law explains why the price of everything electronic keeps going down. Richard Bennett explains some exceptions. Don't expect bandwith prices to halve every 18 months.
A new case study from Harvard Business School looks at how National Geographic dealt with the many challenges of changing its business model from paper to digital.
Consumer-oriented cloud applications make it really easy for employees to share sensitive corporate documents, maybe too easy, warns Maria Korolov.
Digital technologies and the Internet are affecting every aspect of film production, distribution, marketing, and consumption and have spawned the online film festival.
For the first time, Australians can turn off behavioural advertising used on the websites of most of the country's major online advertisers.
Yesterday I mentioned the Auckland Volcanic Field - the cluster of volcanoes underneath New Zealand's largest city. Although the Auckland Volcanic Field is a region to monitor for activity, it […]
Before Copernicus, it was widely believed that everything – including the Sun – revolved around the Earth. In the same way, it might be quaint one day to believe that everything once revolved around the PC rather than the mobile device.
Chinese artist Ai Weiwei's recent abduction is a testament to how powerfully the Chinese government fears the combination of art and communication technology.
The situation at Fukushima has stabilized—if your conception of stable is hanging off a cliff by your fingernails.
While Shakespeare's plays speak to all time periods, attempts to make them explicitly address contemporary issues often fall flat. Here the Wall Street Journal critic discusses how NOT to adapt […]
How does the greatest poet of the English language speak to our most pressing contemporary issues? A distinguished panel finds in Shakespeare some striking analogies to our expectations of Obama as a leader, the turmoil in the Middle East, and America's love of revenge.
The kind of literary criticism that Lionel Trilling practiced, which assumed that national literatures reflected deep national values, is dead now.