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Imagine an internet in which economic power is more broadly distributed, so that more people can build and maintain small businesses online to make good livings. In this world, the behavioral advertising that has made the internet into a giant surveillance tool would be banned, so people could...

The next generation of law students is obsessed with the FTC chief — and becoming foot soldiers in a potential antitrust revolution.

Jerry Zremski: In the eyes of Tim Wu, there are two Kathy Hochuls. But there are two Tim Wus,

This is an edited version of a series of talks I first gave in New York over the past week, outlining my work at Columbia. Many thanks to Reinvent, Pete Leyden, Cap Gemini, Columbia University, Cossette/Vision7, and the New York Times for hosting and helping me. Prelude.  I have spent 30-plus years in the tech…

Ever since there’s been AI, there’s been a fear that robots are coming for our jobs. But if history is any guide, we humans may face nearly the opposite problem

The industry is preoccupied with money-making, but the potential of shared computing could go far beyond finance.

Elon Musk wants to be the prophet of the next generation and to expand the boundaries of our technological imagination.

Dreams of free content and equality are often highjacked and tightly controlled by wealthy people with a hearty appetite for attention.

The theory of mutual assured destruction has helped keep nuclear peace. The theory of mutual assured disruption may prevent massive cyberattacks.

The galaxy far, far away earned a major milestone back in 2016, as Rogue One: A Star Wars Story marked the first live-action film in the Star Wars franchise to land in theaters that wasnt a direct extension of the Skywalker Saga. In addition to what made the film stand out from a conceptual [...]