It’s a familiar scene: It’s Tuesday night and you’ve finally settled into your couch to watch television. Your “work” Blackberry vibrates. You check it. It’s an email from your boss […]
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The real Tony La Russa had no legal case against the fake Tony La Russa, at least not on Twitter. The manager of the St. Louis Cardinals filed his suit […]
American society’s Internet addiction is natural and avoiding it is nearly impossible.
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The Internet has created a way to tell stories that is uniquely suited to the medium.
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Written by: Julien Mailland
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Big Think had the chance to sit down this week with Anil Dash, Chief Evangelist of Six Apart, the developers of the influential and pervasive blogging platforms Movable Type and […]
Bloggers the world over are uniting to support free speech in Iran with all the brilliance and subtlety only the Internet could muster. In a movement to obscure reporting from […]
The source of the controversy in the psychology community this week is the Rorschach Test. You may not recognize that name, but you’ve seen parts of the test before: they’re those […]
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the evolutions and revolutions of the human social sytems and system.
Dumb and high-minded content both have a home on the Internet.
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While most of the high-minded concern over the death of newspapers has been over the quality of future reporting and the role of news in a democratic society, it has […]
“The thing I find incredibly awesome about the internet is that it…weeds out the complainers.”
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In the pre-Internet world, you might have told a few people about a lousy experience you had with a company. Now the Web lets you tell millions… and your message never goes away.
The next evolution of the computer age is perhaps upon us. No longer will we be concerned with hard drive size or ram. It will just be about speed to access the net and home computers will be merely portals
Sonia Sotomayor’s confirmation as the first Hispanic Supreme Court Justice is being hailed as a earth shattering breakthrough for minorities within the legal establishment. Wrong. It’s a diversion.
Net neutrality in Britain might be on thin ice, but this week’s European Parliament elections could set a new course for digital legislation across the continent. The British government is […]
The Golden Years are really the Platinum Years for millions of senior citizens because of the marvels of modern technology.
Blogger Stevel Rubel spoke with Big Think yesterday on the the future of internet advertising, the semantic web and digital media. He’s a smart guy. He also has a really […]
Malicious computer attacks act a lot like Michael Jackson fans. And in the digital age, both can have quite the ripple effect. Since the King of Pop’s passing on Thursday […]
Speaking before hundreds of small business owners Thursday, directors at Google and Facebook highlighted Barack Obama’s online media campaign during the 2008 election to explain how organizations can participate in, […]
It’s an old cliché but it fits well all too often, “embrace change.” We’ve all heard this before at the corporate sales conference, just as the HR folks start warming up their pink slip pads for that strategically placed layoff.
Big Think and the Berkman Center present Jonathan Zittrain’s discussion on principles of online privacy.
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Written by: Susan Benesch
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Big Think’s latest livecast will feature Wolfram Research founder Stephen Wolfram and Harvard Law professor Jonathan Zittrain as they offer a look at the Wolfram Alpha, a soon-to-launch engine that […]
At Monday’s Personal Democracy Forum in Manhattan, I asked David Corn, chief of the Washington Bureau for Mother Jones and a blogger for CQ Politics, for his opinion on a […]
It has become fashionable to castigate Twitter – the microblogging service – as an expression of rampant narcissism. Yet, narcissists are verbose and they do not take kindly to limitations imposed on them by third parties.
Wired editor Frank Rose comes to Big Think tomorrow to discuss the changing landscape of media, entertainment and advertising. Post your questions for him here. With over 30 years in […]