Radical Silicon Valley libertarianism is forcing us all to take on unnecessary risks, and the new technology is badly in need of regulation.

The surveillance state always hurts dissidents most of all. We shouldn't neglect the importance of constraining its power.

Today's large language models (LLMs) are produced by data from the public, so they can't ethically be owned by any one individual. Socialism is the only fair way to govern this technology.

Today, wealthy capitalists want to strip-mine the wonders of outer space for their own greed and vanity. Voyager offers another way.

Journalist Zoë Schiffer on the downward spiral of an extremely influential platform.

Tracking down facts requires navigating a labyrinth of paywalls and broken links.

Tech columnist Brian Merchant takes us back to the 19th century to see who the Luddites really were and what they fought for. Luddism, he says, is about “questioning who machinery serves.”

Techno-optimism is a dangerous philosophy whose adherents espouse the blind faith that market capitalism and technology will solve the world’s problems. In reality, this kind of optimism simply justifies elite power and promotes indifference to human suffering.