How We Misremember the Internet’s Origins
50 years after the first ARPANET message, pop culture still views connectivity as disconnected from the political worldview that produced it.
50 years after the first ARPANET message, pop culture still views connectivity as disconnected from the political worldview that produced it.
How a shadowy consortium controls the evolution of emoji
Tech was meant to help us transcend our most intractable problems. What went wrong?
The people who bet big on disruptive technologies have a lot in common.
The tech giant changed how Americans buy stuff. It will have to do so again—whether it wants to or not.
Facebook, Amazon, Apple, and Google are fighting for unbroken control of American life.
Instead of examining Elizabeth Holmes’s personality, look at the people and systems that aided the company’s rise.
New HR policies alone won't reform the company's culture.
How rank-and-file workers are changing the politics and culture of Big Tech.
Tech workers are using company mission statements to hold their CEOs accountable.
Is Silicon Valley growing away from its liberal and libertarian origins?
Former deputy prime minister Nick Clegg, recently hired to manage the beleaguered tech giant's global affairs and communications, digs the liberal-utilitarian theorist.
“Femtech” companies are marketing themselves to women who are worried about having kids. Are these startups alleviating female anxieties or exploiting them?
He could have been banished for securities fraud, but the government feared the consequences for Tesla's shareholders.
How Google, Tesla, and other tech giants could fix the broken relationship between employers and their employees
An interview with The New York Times reveals a CEO who appears to be hanging by a thread.
Elon Musk has seemingly done everything in his power to dampen enthusiasm for his company. And yet it keeps bouncing along.
The company's business model was unsustainable, but that's not why it's struggling. Just ask Uber, Amazon, or Netflix.
How one seemingly benign concept has been used as cover for all kinds of self-serving proposals.
The ethos of Silicon Valley—scalability, homogeneity, and a subtle exclusivity—has crept into the clothes people wear.