Essay

Rather than criticising Eduardo Saverin, tech blogger Farhad Manjoo should stick to what he knows about. More »

Tupac’s posthumous performance at the Coachella music festival raises questions about your online legacy. Luke Robert Mason explores the future of digital ghosts. More »

American idealists have a bad habit of hobbling technological innovation, writes Greg Stevens. More »

Sean Parker is an anachronism, says Ezra Butler, who explains why Silicon Valley has a vested interest in maintaining the romantic cliché of the socially awkward geek. More »

Open and free access to music is changing our listening habits for good. Jeremy Wilson explores the business opportunities for technology start-ups. More »

Ezra Butler finds it absurd that lawmakers and regulators are trying to regulate discourse in the public square. More »

In this experimental essay, Ezra Butler offers a critique of Megan Garber's recent column in The Atlantic about the TED conference, drawing on Talmudic scholarship and a wide-ranging survey of Garber's past writing. More »

Twitter, Facebook and Google+ are making a strategic mistake trying to compete with one another, writes Greg Stevens. More »

Greg Stevens tells the story of a little-known scientific movement called artificial life, reminding us that big-picture philosophical thinking can lead to incredible breakthroughs in science and technology. More »

Ezra Butler wonders whether allowing a vacuous smut merchant to dominate Gawker is smart long-term thinking, offering an anatomy of Brian Moylan's recent hate campaign against a hotel chain. Does Moylan's toxic brand of polemical blogging indicate where the site is headed? More »

It seems as though every young person with a laptop and an idea is encouraged to set up a business these days. But there are dire consequences for those who don't make it, and for the economy at large, writes Ezra Butler. More »

Nothing captures the imagination of philosophers, entrepreneurs and technophiles more than the idea of accelerating progress. But what is progress? Can it be measured? And is the pace of technological change accelerating as fast as we think? Greg Stevens looks back over 200 years of our obsession with progress and concludes that we need to fundamentally reimagine our understanding of the concept. More »

Academic and entrepreneur Vivek Wadhwa argues that despite the successes of female and minority entrepreneurs, success in the technology world is not always just down to merit. More »