Category: Technology

February 12, 2013

An Interview with Claude Piantadosi, Author of Mankind Beyond Earth

“As a lifelong investigator, I have a deep belief that maintaining our research leadership in all facets of science is critical to our nation’s continued success as a forward-thinking civilization. Despite its great costs and high risks, space exploration is...

January 30, 2013

A Q & A with Mark C. Taylor

Read an interview with Professor Mark C. Taylor, author of Rewiring the Real.

September 25, 2012

With the iPhone 5, Has Apple Lost Its Edge?

“With the release of the iPhone 5, the promise back in 2007 of the iPhone becoming an ever expanding mobile media machine might have come to a halt. At least temporarily.”—Pelle Snickars The following post is by Pelle Snickars, co-editor...

July 13, 2012

What Steve Jobs Did Not Know About Apps

“Apple’s iPhone and App Store has, thus, proven that walled gardens are not necessarily a bad thing, at least not for a successful digital marketplace to emerge.”—Pelle Snickars The following post is by Pelle Snickars, co-editor of Moving Data: The...

July 12, 2012

Patrick Vonderau on What Can Be Learned from an iPhone Bill

The following post is by Patrick Vonderau, co-editor of Moving Data: The iPhone and the Future of Media. For more on the book, you can read the introduction. In 2007, blogger Justine Ezarik uploaded a video on YouTube, titled 300-page...

July 10, 2012

Capitalism and the History of the iPhone — An Excerpt from Moving Data

We continue our week-long focus on Moving Data: The iPhone and the Future of Media with an excerpt from the book’s introduction by Pelle Snickars and Patrick Vonderau. In this section, Snickars and Vonderau explore what makes the iPhone distinct...

June 14, 2012

The Best Business Writing 2012 Sheds a Light on Patent Trolling

One of the more fascinating pieces in The Best Business Writing 2012 is When Patents Attack!, a story that was broadcast on NPR’s beloved “This American Life”. In the radio piece, Alex Blumberg and Laura Sydell investigate how patent lawyers...

August 10, 2010

Are E-books Good for Poetry? A Post by Siobhan Phillips

The following post is by Siobhan Phillips, author of The Poetics of the Everyday: Creative Repetition in Modern American Verse. Last month, an AP story about digital publication briefly focused poetry-lovers’ general despair at the future on a specific new...

August 9, 2010

Christopher Davidson on Blackberry Censorship in the UAE

Christopher Davidson, whose book Dubai: The Vulnerability of Success was just reviewed in the New York Review of Books, recently contributed to the Index on Censorship on the UAE’s recent decision to ban Blackberry use. Davidson argues that the UAE’s...

July 2, 2009

Kindle & The Future of Print Journalism — A Post by Ted Striphas

The following post is from Ted Striphas, author of The Late Age of Print: Everyday Book Culture from Consumerism to Control. The post originally appeared on his blog The Late Age of Print. As someone who writes about the future...

July 1, 2009

“Green Dam” as a Case of Online Activism in China

The following is a post by Guobin Yang, author of The Power of the Internet in China: Citizen Activism Online. According to a directive first issued by China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology on May 19, 2009, July 1...

May 21, 2009

Book Publishing's Reality TV — Ted Striphas, from The Late Age of Print

“Think about it this way: sites like Scribd are the reality TV of book publishing.”—Ted Striphas, “Book Publishing’s Reality TV” As has been widely reported and discussed new technologies are changing the face of of publishing— a fact that both...