- Advertising Ignorance Is Not Bliss
Media Insider, Kaila Colbin - Friday, May 11, 2018
It's no wonder Facebook's efforts at transparency continually fall short of t ...
- Finally! The Burning Platform Use Case For Blockchain
Media Insider, Kaila Colbin - Friday, April 27, 2018
We have built an entire social, legal and political ecosystem designed ...
- Zuckerberg's Talk About User Control Is Meaningless
Media Insider, Kaila Colbin - Friday, April 13, 2018
Behind Zuckerberg's overly solicitous proclamations of user control sits a hard trut ...
- Self-Driving Cars? We're Already In Danger
Media Insider, Kaila Colbin - Friday, March 30, 2018
Uber's crash of a self-driving car brings reflections on using technology ...
- Facebook Failing On Fake News -- But There's A Better Way
Media Insider, Kaila Colbin - Friday, March 16, 2018
It feels almost like "Groundhog Day": the top brass at Facebook sayin ...
- Automation's Impact On Employment Is Already Here
Media Insider, Kaila Colbin - Friday, March 2, 2018
On February 26, 1928, the New York Times ran a headline: "Mar ...
- We Are All Being Gaslighted -- And It's Only Going To Get Worse
Media Insider, Kaila Colbin - Friday, February 16, 2018
It was 1940 when the first version of the movie "Gaslight" h ...
- This Habit Could Destroy Us
Media Insider, Kaila Colbin - Friday, February 2, 2018
Now that Facebook has decided it's better for us to see mo ...
- There's A Backlash Against Tech Giants -- And It's Good
Media Insider, Kaila Colbin - Friday, January 19, 2018
The bomb dropped earlier this week: BlackRock, the largest investor in t ...
- The One Resolution That Matters
Media Insider, Kaila Colbin - Friday, January 5, 2018
I hope you all had a wonderful holiday -- whatever you choo ...
- Maybe Unicorns Aren't So Great After All
Media Insider, Kaila Colbin - Friday, December 22, 2017
Once again, Uber has been knocked back. Earlier this week, the Cou ...
- AI Isn't Becoming More Intelligent, But More Capable
Media Insider, Kaila Colbin - Friday, December 8, 2017
Just a year and a half after the artificially intelligent Go play ...
- Embracing The Totality Of Thanksgiving
Media Insider, Kaila Colbin - Friday, November 24, 2017
It's depressing to contemplate the totality of our complicity in the sta ...
- Sorry, Senator Franken: Facebook Neutrality Is Impossible
Media Insider, Kaila Colbin - Friday, November 10, 2017
"As tech giants become a new kind of Internet gatekeeper," said Senat ...
- Yep, We Should Be Scared Of AI
Media Insider, Kaila Colbin - Friday, October 27, 2017
They had invited me to talk about the technological singularity: the mome ...
- OF COURSE Google Home Is Spying On You
Media Insider, Kaila Colbin - Friday, October 13, 2017
It was a shocking headline: "Google Home Mini spied on user 'thousan ...
- The American News Media's Most Important Story Right Now
Media Insider, Kaila Colbin - Friday, September 29, 2017
There is no debate that the media is not adequately covering t ...
- Thanks To Technology, Propaganda Is Now Exponential
Media Insider, Kaila Colbin - Friday, September 15, 2017
Remember when propaganda used to be straightforward? It came in the fo ...
- The Internet Isn't Optimized For Meritocracy
Media Insider, Kaila Colbin - Friday, September 1, 2017
In July of 1993, the cartoonist Peter Steiner doodled a cartoon th ...
- Solving For Hate
Media Insider, Kaila Colbin - Friday, August 18, 2017
Like you -- I assume -- I hope-- I was saddened a ...
- AI Predicts The Future Will Be As Bad As The Past
Media Insider, Kaila Colbin - Friday, August 4, 2017
It's the age of machine learning, they say. Thanks to algorithms, ...
- Immortality Is In The Eye Of The Beholder
Media Insider, Kaila Colbin - Friday, July 21, 2017
The immortalists believe we can and should live forever -- that dea ...
- Everything You Know May Be Wrong
Media Insider, Kaila Colbin - Friday, July 7, 2017
Last year, I wrote an article called "The real reason this elepha ...
- For The News Media, It May Already Be Too Late
Media Insider, Kaila Colbin - Friday, June 23, 2017
You might not agree, but I believe most people want to kn ...
- On Both Sides, The Media Is Peddling A False Dilemma About Trump
Media Insider, Kaila Colbin - Friday, June 9, 2017
An op-ed headline in The Washington Post this week intrigued me: "O ...
- Why Free Is Bad For You
Media Insider, Kaila Colbin - Friday, May 26, 2017
If you have two constituent groups, and one pays you directly, a ...
- Trump: News Media's Worthy Competitor
Online Spin, Kaila Colbin - Friday, May 12, 2017
They say competition makes you stronger. When you're on your own, there ...
- Humanity, Not Technology: The Idea Worth Spreading
Online Spin, Kaila Colbin - Friday, April 28, 2017
Once a year, the good and the great converge on Vancouver, Cana ...
- Can Technology Make The World Great Again?
Online Spin, Kaila Colbin - Friday, April 14, 2017
We've all heard the promises: Technology is going to give us ...
- The Colonization Of Mars
Online Spin, Kaila Colbin - Friday, March 31, 2017
Yesterday humanity marked a glorious milestone: SpaceX successfully relaunched and re-landed ...