technology
Platform capitalists: The new would-be rulers of the world
August 30, 2017The platform capitalists pose as a group of high-tech saviors making the world a better place. What they are really doing is becoming data monopolies.
Read moreUber driver says: “You’d be better off working at McDonald’s”
August 8, 2017Many Uber drivers are on a debt-to-work pipeline, taking on significant financial risk to earn a wage. But they never know how much they'll make.
Read moreRobot revolution: We have nothing to lose but our digital chains
March 31, 2017The automation and robotization of work raises plenty of concerns. But it need not be all doom and gloom, as technology could also improve work.
Read moreA 1960s activist looks back: Organizing in the pre-Twitter era
March 30, 2017There’s no question social media is transforming the way movements are organized. But technology by itself has never overthrown a tyrant nor seized state power.
Read moreMan and Nature: A powerful connection, now fractured
October 12, 2016“Probably no society has been so deeply alienated as ours from the community of nature."
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