Why Technology Alone Won't Fix Schools
To wonder what ails American education is to open a Pandora’s box of wicked problems … but the problem is definitely not a lack of computers.
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Brian Snyder / Reuters The Trouble With Sweeping Questions About the Internet
Pundits and scholars too often phrase queries that miss the point: The transformative power of any technology relies first on underlying human forces.
Reuters The Problem With the Plan to Give Internet Access to the Whole World
“It’s not as if anybody asked two-thirds of humanity whether they wanted to be put online.”
Stephane Mahe/Reuters Twitter Isn't Spreading Democracy—Democracy Is Spreading Twitter
We have free speech online because we have free speech offline, not the other way around.
How Internet Censorship Actually Works in China
Studies show that the government permits some dissent online—but strikes down hard on calls for collective action.
Carlos Barria/Reuters Dear Silicon Valley: Meritocracy Is an Ideology Too
The central political value that animates Silicon Valley is neither libertarianism nor progressivism. It's meritocracy.
Our Equal Future: Does Technology Hold the Key to a Flatter World?
Far from making the world more fair, technology serves to reinforce, and perhaps even increase, inequalities.
Our Future Might Be Bright: The Tentative, Rosy Predictions of Google's Eric Schmidt
The rhetoric Schmidt and his co-author Jared Cohen employ in their new book is clever but misleading.
