For the first 15 years of the 21st century, Democrats and Big Tech seemed to get along. There was something exciting and progressive about the likes of Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos that made them distinct from the Koch Brothers and Rupert Murdoch. ...
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For the first 15 years of the 21st century, Democrats and Big Tech seemed to get along. There was something exciting and progressive about the likes of Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos that made them distinct from the Koch Brothers and Rupert Murdoch. ...
On average, Americans spend ten hours staring at a screen every day. The incorporation of internet use into everyday life has become so ubiquitous that the inability to get online can have massive repercussions. Nicol Turner Lee of Brookings summar...
On average, Americans spend ten hours staring at a screen every day. The incorporation of internet use into everyday life has become so ubiquitous that the inability to get online can have massive repercussions. Nicol Turner Lee of Brookings summar...
China’s social credit policies have populated news headlines recently, and it’s easy to see why. The social credit score (SCS), which assigns users a three-digit score, seems to come directly from an episode of Black Mirror. Pulling together ream...
China’s social credit policies have populated news headlines recently, and it’s easy to see why. The social credit score (SCS), which assigns users a three-digit score, seems to come directly from an episode of Black Mirror. Pulling together ream...
Since the 1960s, America has vaunted Asians as the nation’s model minority. Simultaneously overrepresented at Harvard (relative to the general population) and underrepresented in stories about poverty, Asian-Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPI) ...
Since the 1960s, America has vaunted Asians as the nation’s model minority. Simultaneously overrepresented at Harvard (relative to the general population) and underrepresented in stories about poverty, Asian-Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPI) ...
This fall, wildfires have been dotting the United States. Cash-strapped state and federal agencies are desperately trying to combat the fire-wrought destruction, while astronauts helplessly watch gargantuan clouds of smoke waft over the nation. In Mo...
This fall, wildfires have been dotting the United States. Cash-strapped state and federal agencies are desperately trying to combat the fire-wrought destruction, while astronauts helplessly watch gargantuan clouds of smoke waft over the nation. In Mo...
As the battle for control of the Senate rages on, the American public grows eager for polling data to reveal which politician leads in a campaign and the likely outcome of each election. Given the people’s thirst for constant updates, many small, p...
As the battle for control of the Senate rages on, the American public grows eager for polling data to reveal which politician leads in a campaign and the likely outcome of each election. Given the people’s thirst for constant updates, many small, p...
Politicians like data. But trends are a different story — harder to confuse and more difficult to misapply, trends can spell out dire predictions for even the most data-toting politicians. And today’s trends reveal a most moribund frontier in con...
Politicians like data. But trends are a different story — harder to confuse and more difficult to misapply, trends can spell out dire predictions for even the most data-toting politicians. And today’s trends reveal a most moribund frontier in con...
Stephen Baker is a former senior writer and technology correspondent for BusinessWeek and the author of “Final Jeopardy” and “The Numerati,” about the rapidly growing role of Big Data in the lives of citizens. Baker spoke with...
Stephen Baker is a former senior writer and technology correspondent for BusinessWeek and the author of “Final Jeopardy” and “The Numerati,” about the rapidly growing role of Big Data in the lives of citizens. Baker spoke with...