Special Series
A century ago, new media tech brought fake news, privacy woes, and censorship fights — and American democracy tamed it. It’s time for new legislation that revives the wisdom of that era.
“Deep learning” hype misses a basic feature of human intelligence.
How blurring the line between science and technology puts both at risk
How online life breaks the old political order
How the technological feats of World War II grew out of curiosity-driven research
How fears of mind control went from paranoid delusion to conventional wisdom