How to Destroy ‘Surveillance Capitalism’

Surveillance capitalism is just capitalism — with…

How a Band of Activists — and One Tech Billionaire — Beat Alphabet’s ‘Smart City’

Alphabet bet big in…

Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom

Put simply, Ted Chiang is one of our generation’s greatest speculative fiction writers. This may…

Here’s What It’s Like to Work in an Amazon Warehouse Right Now

Convenience comes at a price

The Inside Story of How Facebook Acquired Instagram

The social giant’s controversial $1 billion…

Uber and Lyft’s Business Model May Be Dead. Good.

The biggest startups in modern history were built on…

Pattern Matching

How Fortnite Baited Apple Into a Losing Battle

Epic Games’ ambush shows how antitrust scrutiny has changed the app store landscape

The Great Slacklash Is Coming

Slack and its counterparts ‘create problems, high school-type problems,’…

BIG TECHNOLOGY

‘It Just Felt Wrong’: Ex-Amazon VP Tim Bray on Why He Left.

The 100-Year History of Self-Driving Vehicles

What the long history of the autonomous vehicle reveals…