By Samer Hassan
Overcoming the flaws of an internet controlled by a few major players will enable web services that are more democratic and fair.
By Carissa Véliz
The data economy depends on violating our right to privacy on a massive scale, collecting as much personal data as possible for profit.
By Kevin Werbach
DeFi has the capacity to transform financial services, but challenges and risks need to be properly addressed to fulfill its potential.
By Cory Doctorow
As software expands into every device and system, monopolies are using intellectual property to control competitors, critics, and customers.
By Jathan Sadowski
Breaking the platform economy’s cycle of extraction and enclosure can redistribute power over data and infrastructure to the public.
By Tim Maughan
Content creators are at the mercy of corporations because they have no control over the infrastructure on which they depend.
By Doc Searls
Self-sovereign identity is a decentralized model that allows users to control their data, enabling digital experiences that are secure and interoperable.
By Ingrid Burrington
Control over underlying tech infrastructure determines who benefits from it, raising the prospect of alternative ownership and profit models.
By Daniel McGlynn
A chronological guide to the developmental milestones that have defined the internet.
By Claire L. Evans
Code must run, as buildings must stand, without crumbling, but how that happens is a matter of elegance, even beauty.
By Joanne McNeil
How the shared culture of Silicon Valley has shaped, and been shaped by, the places where tech has taken root.
By Nathan Schneider
Crypto should encourage a renaissance of creative governance possibilities that organize economic mechanisms around values and rights.
By Jessa Lingel
Gentrification is a useful idea for understanding the internet’s problems, as well as the need for alternative models that are open and fair.
By Robert W. Gehl
Challenging Google and Apple's dominance of mobile operating systems can give users more control, and support a broad realignment within tech.
By Jillian C. York
In democracies and authoritarian nations alike, governments have come to rely on an ability to cut off internet access to the public.
By Karl Bode
A regulatory push in Congress, along with Big Tech critic Lina Khan's ascension as a chief antitrust official, may signal meaningful reform.
By Kristina Rapacki
UX designers, engineers, and the iPhone's co-designer are reassessing the priorities behind the ways we interact with apps and devices.
By Matthew Crain
Apple and Facebook's dispute over iPhone data tracking reveals more about corporate power over the internet than it does about user privacy.
By Evan Malmgren
Support for municipal broadband in cities like New York could spark a movement for equitable internet access throughout the US.