Jaron Lanier is back with a vision of a jobless post-Singularity dystopia where hundreds of millions have no place to go and nothing to do.

Chris Dancy's now infamous minute by minute tracking of his work day shows just how badly management understands how to track the output of employees in creative fields.

Sometimes, when all you can get for your writing is exposure, the market is trying to tell you something you'd be foolish to ignore.

Malware peddlers apparently have great customer service. And if you think about it, they really have to...

EU's latest idea for making the web forget you and your embarrassing posts? Set all data to self-destruct.

Bitcoin isn't about to crash, but it's very unlikely to scale up to a currency freely used around the world.

Computers respect the letter of the law, but they can't understand the spirit. That's why they're terrible at real world policing.

In the tech world, dissing someone's tech stack is a great way to start a small holy war. And Jeff Atwood did just that on his blog.

Tech skeptic Evgeny Morozov doesn't seem to think smartphone app users have any agency or free will.

How a joke in poor taste exploded into an ever-escalating firestorm of recriminations and tit-for-tats.

Big Think's informative and educational Q&A feature once again produces answers that fail to inform or educate.

What do radical Mexican environmental activists call a nuclear war followed by a totalitarian dictatorship? A good start.

The anger at Marissa Meyer has nothing to do with whether her employees will have to spend more time at the office and everything with why they're being corralled into their cubicles.

A widely covered article about math confuses readers by equating volume of proof and code with quality of proof and code to imply that computers will take over math as a discipline.

Newspapers are attacking online services with which they could partner out of sheer desperation.