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Newsmakers, In Their Words | Exclusive Backstory Behind the Bay Lights: It’s...
The Bay Lights has been heralded by many as the nexus of art and technology. But given my experience and perspective as the originator of the project, I question whether "technology" is worthy of its...
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Open Letters To... | Beware Cellphone Companies’‘Red Herring’: Exclusive...
This is an exclusive excerpt of testimony on the latest unlocking act, just given to the U.S. House of Representatives by Derek Khanna, who wrote the infamous copyright memo for the GOP last year and...
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Unlocking Bill Passes Committee, But There’s Still a Treacherous Road Ahead
The Unlocking Consumer Choice and Wireless Competition Act was approved by the House Judiciary Committee yesterday. The bill now moves on to the House floor, so its fate is still uncertain. And...
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Why Free Software Is More Important Now Than Ever Before
GNU just turned 30 years old. But much has changed since the beginning of the free software movement; now there's SaaS and more. Malware is common in proprietary software products since users don't...
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The Abomination of Ebooks: They Price People Out of Reading
The real problem with ebooks is that they’re more 'e' than book, so an entirely different set of rules govern what someone can and can't do with them compared to physical books, especially when it...
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Apple vs Google: Did Apple Learn Anything From Its War With Microsoft?
It seemed unfathomable that Jobs would lose two battles the same way a generation apart. But with so many similarities between the two dogfights -- Microsoft vs Apple, Apple vs Google -- it was hard...
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The Getty and Google Unleash Free Art — And Your Creative Potential
Open sharing has been around forever, accelerating progress in diverse fields. Computing (e.g., Homebrew Computer Club), code (open source), and even academic publishing (“open access”, which goes...
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It’s Time to Take Mesh Networks Seriously (And Not Just for the Reasons You...
The internet is weak, yet we keep ignoring that fact. Which is why I believe it’s time to reconsider the potential of mesh networking, and make mesh networks a reality. Not just because of their...
View ArticleRaspberry Pi’s Secret: ‘Sell Out a Little to Sell a Lot’
It’s just all warm and fuzzy around Raspberry Pi these days. But how was the idea of a hackably cheap credit card-sized computer engineered into a hard reality? Here’s the inside perspective from...
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EV Plug Wars: Charging Ahead When What We Really Need Is More Cars
Electric-vehicle charging is just one giant pissing contest these days, with different companies crossing streams in a quest to prove connector, standard, or network superiority. The latest involves...
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The Next Battleground for Open Source Is Your Car
It all seems upside down: a major toy company releases its first tablet; a major search company works on its first car. Yet all of this makes sense when you realize everyone just wants to be – or...
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The U.N. Shouldn’t Make Decisions About an Open Internet Behind Closed Doors
Behind closed doors, decisions will be made next week that could threaten the global, open internet. This isn’t a sky-is-falling cry: There could be very real consequences both in how we use the...
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Internet Users Shouldn’t Have to Pay the Price of This International Treaty
Requiring content providers to establish bilateral relationships with all of the network operators that comprise the global Internet simply cannot be made to scale … because every Internet user is a...
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To Make Open Access Work, We Need to Do More Than Liberate Journal Articles
In an act of solidarity with the late Aaron Swartz's crusade to liberate publicly funded knowledge for all, many academics have been posting open-access PDFs of their research. While it's been a...
View ArticleAaron Swartz and the Two Faces of Power
Power isn't just an abstraction: It has possessors, supplicants, and hand servants. And it’s not good to be on Power’s bad side if what you do falls into the gray area of enforcing the letter as...
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Our Dated Immigration Policies Could Torpedo the Tech Economy
It’s an iPad and smartphone world. Yet we’re stuck with an immigration system formed in the age of black-and-white TVs.
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The GitHub Revolution: Why We’re All in Open Source Now
As people who were once just users become producers, they’re re-shaping the culture of open source. GitHub is doing to open source what the internet did to the publishing industry. And it’s creating a...
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Forget the Cellphone Fight — We Should Be Allowed to Unlock Everything We Own
Who owns our stuff? The answer used to be obvious. Now, with electronics integrated into just about everything we buy, the answer has changed. The issue goes beyond cellphone unlocking, because once we...
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Living in the Present Is a Disorder
We’re living in the now, we no longer have a sense of future direction, and we have a completely new relationship to time. In this Wired Q&A between author of Present Shock Rushkoff and former...
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This EULA Will Make You Rethink Every App and Online Service You Use
The information economy that we are currently building doesn’t really embrace capitalism, but rather a new form of feudalism. Without the public road, and utterly unencumbered access to it, a child’s...
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Beyond Unlocking: Don’t Let Them Kill the First Decent Copyright Reform
A funny thing happened on the way to Congress yesterday. For once, lawmakers introduced a common-sense bill -- the Unlocking Technology Act of 2013. So you might assume that Congress will make a...
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Why You Should Embrace Surveillance, Not Fight It
The internet is a tracking and monitoring machine. We will ceaselessly self-track and be tracked. We’re expanding the data sphere to sci-fi levels and there’s no stopping it because too many of the...
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