CAS 383: Culture and Technology

A cross-disciplinary group of scholars convened at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee to focus attention on the lesser-noticed consequences of innovation.

Neil Postman offers a critique of our modern philosophical condition by challenging our widely held assumptions concerning education, technology and media. H...

As machines take on more jobs, many find themselves out of work or with raises indefinitely postponed. Is this the end of growth? No, says Erik Brynjolfsson -- it’s simply the growing pains of a radically reorganized economy.

Shodan is an Internet search engine capable of finding just about every connected thing imaginable.

An introduction to ATD- the new series by acclaimed documentarian Ondi Timoner, director of "Dig!" & "We Live in Public"

Mike Wesch, a 2009 National Geographic Emerging Explorer, talks about the future of communication and education, and describes the inspiration behind—and bre...

Lewis Duncan, of Rollins College, wants to prepare his students for the practical ethics of their own machine-enabled immortality.

Here in the US, the Dow recently tumbled almost 150 points in a “flash crash” caused by widespread digital panic. What was the cause of this panic? Twitter.

"Without Twitter, without Facebook, without YouTube, there's a very good chance that Mubarak might have endured," media studies expert Paul Levinson told a p...

Futurist David Houle calls 2010-2020 the Transformation Decade

Automation will engender neither utopia nor dystopia. Humans alone are responsible for our society's economic future.

David Levy's course at the University of Washington puts technology in its place—in the control of students.

How can history and hindsight predict the future of Facebook? Just look at the ways people have always interacted, says social media commentator Bob Zukis.