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Interview with Zeynep Tufekci: Television, Internet, and the Expansion of Rights

Unlike two years ago, this year I won't have the time to summarize all of the interesting presentations and discussions from the Ars Electronica Symposium. Isaac and I divided the day into two parts. In the morning, we focused on countries that had already experienced...

[Review] The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood

That the earth cirlces around the sun was bad enough, but the real catastrophe confronting the meaning of existence and the existence of meaning was Darwin. Here we are by happenstance, it turns out, the sons and daughters of survivalism and sexuality. There was all...

What 1968 was to television, 2011 will be to the internet

What follows is a rough approximation of my brief introductory talk at this year's Ars Electronica Symposium which I co-curated with Isaac Mao. The presentation is on Slideshare. Videos of all the talks are available on the website. The Revolutionary Meme When Ars...

The History and Future of Finance

A few years ago — around the time that the housing bubble went pop — I was having dinner with a group at a swanky soul food restaurant in San Francisco. Just as we were about to order, in walked the boyfriend of one of the girls at the table. Bleached...

Ars Electronica: The Public Square, Squared

The Ars Electronica Center in Linz, Austria Next month Isaac Mao and I are headed back to Linz, Austria for this year's symposium, titled "The Public Square, Squared." I'm thrilled with the list of speakers and can't wait to learn from them. A lot has happened since...

¿De pertenencia o acceso a la información?

Lo que sigue es mi breve intervención en el panel de "A quien le pertenece la información" que se realizó la semana pasada en Campus Party. Un video de la discusión está disponible en YouTube. Quiero ofrecer una pequeña anécdota para cuestionar como es que entendemos...