Enterprising law-enforcement officers with a warrant can flick a distant switch and turn a standard mobile phone into a roving mic or eavesdrop on occupants of cars equipped with travel assistance systems.

The qualities that make Twitter seem inane and half-baked are what makes it so powerful.

Digital books and other texts are increasingly coming under the control of distributors and other gatekeepers rather than readers and libraries.

Generativity is a system's capacity to produce unanticipated change through unfiltered contributions from broad and varied audiences.

Thanks in part to the Patriot Act, the federal government has been able to demand some details of your online activities from service providers - and not to tell you about it.

The Internets distinct configuration may have made cyberattacks easy to launch, but it has also kindled the flame of freedom.

Being closed to outsiders made the iPhone reliable and predictable.