Private property has become so prevalent in the world that we rarely think about the commons. Most people consider the subway as a public good, it is...

Private property has become so prevalent in the world that we rarely think about the commons. Most people consider the subway as a public good, it is...

The Zuckerberg hearings were predictably pretty weak. First, the format does not lend itself to a deeper inquiry on a complex topic. Whenever someone...

The Zuckerberg hearings were predictably pretty weak. First, the format does not lend itself to a deeper inquiry on a complex topic. Whenever someone...

NOTE: This is part of a series of excerpts from my book World After Capital. Today’s section introduces the idea that privacy is a strategy for freed...

NOTE: This is part of a series of excerpts from my book World After Capital. Today’s section introduces the idea that privacy is a strategy for freed...

NOTE: This is part of a series of excerpts from my book World After Capital. Today’s post wraps up the prior discussion of why as part of increasing ...

NOTE: This is part of a series of excerpts from my book World After Capital. Today’s post wraps up the prior discussion of why as part of increasing ...

I was overly optimistic when I thought I could resume excerpts from World After Capital today. Turns out the next section is on privacy and it needs ...

I was overly optimistic when I thought I could resume excerpts from World After Capital today. Turns out the next section is on privacy and it needs ...

After some initial uncertainty it appears that the data released yesterday is in fact from the Ashley Madison hack that had been announced a little w...

After some initial uncertainty it appears that the data released yesterday is in fact from the Ashley Madison hack that had been announced a little w...

The terror attacks in Paris, just like other terror attacks before them including 9/11, are a challenge to core democratic values of tolerance and fr...

The terror attacks in Paris, just like other terror attacks before them including 9/11, are a challenge to core democratic values of tolerance and fr...

NOTE: This is part of a series of excerpts from my book World After Capital. Today’s post continues on the idea from last week that privacy is not co...

NOTE: This is part of a series of excerpts from my book World After Capital. Today’s post continues on the idea from last week that privacy is not co...

With the release by Wikileaks of the so-called Vault 7 CIA Hacking tools, the debate has once again turned to the effectiveness and role of encryptio...

With the release by Wikileaks of the so-called Vault 7 CIA Hacking tools, the debate has once again turned to the effectiveness and role of encryptio...

I have written and spoken a lot about how technological progress is incompatible with privacy. One example I have used is someone bioengineering a vi...

I have written and spoken a lot about how technological progress is incompatible with privacy. One example I have used is someone bioengineering a vi...