Making loans accessible to millions of the previously unbankable customers is a noble goal. Getting them hooked to such loans isn't.

You actually see liberals checking 'Fox News,' if only to know what the conservatives are thinking. And you're seeing conservatives who venture into liberal sources, just to know what 'The New York Times' is thinking.

WikiLeaks is what happens when the entire US government is forced to go through a full-body scanner.

The reason why there is more pessimism about technology in Europe has to do with history, the use of databases to keep track of people in the camps, ecological disasters.

As smart technologies become more intrusive, they risk undermining our autonomy by suppressing behaviors that someone somewhere has deemed undesirable.

Universities ought to be aware of the degree they would want to accept funding from governments like China to work on, say, face recognition technology.

In part, slacktivism is what happens when the energy of otherwise dedicated activists is wasted on approaches that are less effective than the alternatives.