Category: Opinion

Opinion TC

Why do developers who could work anywhere flock to the world’s most expensive cities?

April 2, 2017
Jon Evans

 Politicians and economists lament that certain alpha regions — SF, LA, NYC, Boston, Toronto, London, Paris…

Opinion Social TC Twitter

Dear @Jack, I don’t love Twitter anymore

March 31, 2017
Natasha Lomas

 Oh how innocent we were. How full of hope for the possibility of a 140-character microblogging…

Column Opinion robocalypse TC

Is technology contributing to increased inequality?

March 29, 2017
Christoffer O. Hernæs

 As global poverty continues to decline, another issue emerges: According to the World Economic Forum, rising…

Gadgets Opinion TC

Windows has a heart of trash

March 28, 2017
Devin Coldewey

 I did a bad thing. I opened a bad file and it borked my PC. So…

Opinion Snapchat Social social media TC

Facebook Stories looks like an ill-fitting mask

March 28, 2017
Natasha Lomas

 Facebook has finally capped off its strategy of cloning Snapchat’s USP by slotting a camera-first, ephemeral…

IBM Opinion robocalypse Robotics TC

Technology is killing jobs, and only technology can save them

March 26, 2017
Brian Heater

 Are we living in historically unprecedented times for job loss? Or is this part of a…

Opinion TC

Sex and Gor and open source

March 26, 2017
Jon Evans

 A few weeks ago, Dries Buytaert, founder of the popular open-source CMS Drupal, asked Larry Garfield,…

Column Opinion TC

Technology, happiness on demand and the absurd human condition

March 22, 2017
Andrew Heikkila

 Almost everything seems like it’s on demand, delivered with the push of a button. And yet,…