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The Long Game

Nicholas Carr on "The Shallows" 10 Years Later

Jul 29, 2020

One of the foundational books of my adult life is “Amusing Ourselves to Death” by Neil Postman. It helped me see the ways in which the modern world was driven by entertainment more than information, as we transitioned from an word-based society to an image-based society with the advent of television.


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Meet the Guy Who's Hauling All 4 Big Tech CEO's (Virtually) Up to the Hill Next Week, Rep. David Cicilline

Jul 23, 2020

Next Monday, the CEO’s of four of the most dominant and important technology companies in the world will testify to Congress: 


Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, Google’s Sundar Pichai, and Apple’s Tim Cook will all appear before the House Judiciary Committee’s subcommittee on anti-trust,...


The Election Nightmare Scenario that Keeps Rick Hasen Up At Night

Jul 14, 2020

Rick Hasen is professor of law and political science at UC-Irvine and author of “Election Meltdown.”


Rick is two things that make him worth your time. First, he knows more about elections than almost anyone I know of. He updates his “Election Law blog” daily with the latest developments, and he has written two...