
Ben Green on Smart Enough Cities
Data technology researcher and author Ben Green punctures the myth of the smart city.

Data technology researcher and author Ben Green punctures the myth of the smart city.
Josh Golin, Director of Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood, fights a corporate culture of consumerism and surveillance that has ensnared our kids.
Jonathan Taplin, former music and film maven, tells what the new rentier economy of Internet aggregators has done to the arts, journalism, and democracy.
Author and cultural critic David Bosworth discusses America’s myth of individualism and our need for a less atomized culture.
Betsy Brunner at Idaho State examines the creative ways Chinese get around surveillance and censorship on social media.
A tour of autonomous vehicle testing track Mcity with director Huei Peng answers many questions, and raises others.
Tomaso Poggio, Director of MIT’s Center for Minds, Brains, and Machines, explains why AI’s recent success is still a long way from the dystopian fears of robot overlords, but that the threat to jobs is real.
Alex Marthews, executive director of Restore the Fourth, a non-partisan Fourth Amendment advocacy group, tells us about the legal terrain surrounding mass surveillance and a new effort to bring oversight of surveillance tech to local communities.
Internet security expert, privacy advocate, and author Bruce Schneier speaks with the Technoskeptic about the public-private surveillance partnership that monitors everything we do, and what needs to happen in order to restore our privacy.
Internet security expert, privacy advocate, and author Bruce Schneier speaks with the Technoskeptic about the public-private surveillance partnership that monitors everything we do, and what needs to happen in order to restore our privacy.