January 2012
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more on conspiracies and anti-vaccination
Now I’m beginning to grasp what it must be like to be Cass Sunstein (Sunstein, having proposed the idea of “cognitive infiltration” a few years back, got an entire book from conspiracy theorists in response). I’m talking, of course, about my most recent column that proposed a solution that I thought was quite innocent: to have search engines add a line on top of some controversial...
Jan 25th
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My review of The Digital Origins of Dictatorships...
Perspectives on Politics (2011), 9 : pp 897-900 (original) Evgeny Morozov, Stanford University The Digital Origins of Dictatorships and Democracy: Information Technology and Political Islam. By Philip Howard. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. 304p. $17.20. Philip Howard’s important book offers a timely and thorough treatment of a subject that has been catapulted into the...
Jan 15th
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Steve Jobs's interview with Red Herring, 1996
I couldn’t find this interview anywhere on the Web and Red Herring’s archives are, well, not helpful either… WHAT’S NEXT? —- While other CEOs are talking about ideas, Steve Jobs, CEO of NeXT Computer, says he’s talking about reality. 1 January 1996 In 1976, at the age of 20, Steve Jobs co-founded Apple Computer, where he not only built the Apple II, but...
Jan 6th
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