I gave an interview to a newspaper journalist the other day who wanted some information about Occupy Wall Street in the context of the history of American social movements. One question she asked was about how technology makes this movement different. And it struck me...
the fallacy of technological determinism
This Bill Keller piece at the Times discusses Stanford professor Sebastian Thrun's plan to eliminate the traditional university through technology, offering a future of higher education for at all at.
In a post engaging in the time-honored pastime of Mickey Kaus-bashing, Kathy makes an important point with respect to Kaus's claim that increasing income inequality is the result of "increasing.