
New report: From Software to Society — Openness in a changing world
A quick heads-up: A new report (PDF) just dropped that I co-wrote with Dr. Henriette Litta, executive director of Open Knowledge Foundation Germany. In it, we explore the…
A quick heads-up: A new report (PDF) just dropped that I co-wrote with Dr. Henriette Litta, executive director of Open Knowledge Foundation Germany. In it, we explore the…
Have you ever not clicked a link because you didn’t want to send a signal to an algorithm or the entity behind it? To avoid being targeted with…
Here’s a hypothesis I’ve been mulling over as I’ve been absorbing the news these last few weeks and months: It’s time to re-frame Tech & Society as a…
As we see democracy under pressure from populists and other malign hustlers around the globe, one essential issue has become painfully clear: We do not currently have a…
How far into the future do you plan? There doesn’t seem to be a primary source for this other than a 1994 transcript of a lecture by Dutch…
“An X never, ever marks the spot,” Indiana Jones once famously stated. Only in this one particular case, it totally does: When Twitter became X, it very much…
There’s a German figure of speech, pest or cholera? It’s the equivalent to the English phrase between a rock and a hard place but isn’t this just so…