Aldous Huxley I recently stumbled upon Aldous Huxley’s 1946 essay entitled Science, Liberty and Peace which is a remarkable piece of writing. In it, he argues that science and technology has, throughout history, been one of the main causes of the...

Ron Deibert of the Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto recently gave a talk at Google HQ where he discussed the the evolving challenges of measuring and combating Internet censorship. Deibert, one of the founders of the Open Net Initiative, has...

As part of the board of Students for Free Culture, I am helping to plan the 2010 conference which will be taking place on February 13th and 14th at the George Washington University in Washington, D.C. The official announcement is located here. The...

Two recent pieces have made the case that the future of TV is an isolated experience. First, Michael Trucano of the World Bank has a post about the role of video in education around the world where he says: …the trend of television viewing...

This past Saturday Mobile Active and Cell-Life organized Mobile Tech for Social Change Cape Town. I did not have any connectivity, so I just jotted down some thoughts that I thought I’d share. Opening Session Cell-Life presented on their mobile...