A discussion with the professor and co-founder of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School.

The Professor of Law reflects on the potential wonders and horrors of our techno-driven future.

Google’s threat to exit China, due in part to severe government censorship, indicates yet another failure of state officials to grapple with unprecedented complexities of regulating the internet.

A Harvard Law Professor explains the potential underbelly of technological convenience—an unshakable, and often citizen-enforced, system of surveillance.

Jonathan Zittrain discusses the prospect of an “anchor point” in cyberspace.

Jonathan Zittrain examines the privacy issues surrounding the world’s largest social media site, highlighting how we can protect personal data and even control the fate of worrisome photos.

Are booms and busts simply part of American life? Justin Fox of Time says that may be the case, but explains how the U.S. can learn from other countries to […]

A conversation with the business and economics columnist at Time Magazine.

Justin Fox, Time’s business columnist, worries that MBA programs have been structured to teach economics as a science, which it isn’t; he prescribes a way for these schools to change […]

Time Magazine’s Justin Fox explains how famed economist Robert Shiller’s background led to his prescient economic views, and tells us how Shiller reacts to the economic crisis.

Justin Fox of Time Magazine explains the appeal and the downfall of the rational market theory and tells us the next great economic theories and investment models.

Who says nothing interesting happens in this blogger’s native Nebraska? One of the state’s native species has helped scientists see the secrets of evolution twice in the span of a […]

As companies learn the advantages of third-party, virtual labor, Jonathan Zittrain believes that the human mind is becoming commodified as a sort of “ubiquitous computer.” Here the Harvard Law professor […]

Ep Medsystems Termination Reinhard Schmidt, EP MedSystems’ President and Chief Executive Officer commented, “We are very pleased to report our second consecutive quarter of record revenues. Our increased investment in […]

The story of the U.S. Patent Office official who resigned his post in the 19th century because he believed there was nothing left to invent makes a point about human […]

Sometimes peoples’ views surprise you. When I heard Tim McCarthy, director of Harvard’s Human Rights and Social Movement program, talk about gay marriage in his Big Think interview, I was […]

In the wake of Ted Kennedy’s passing, leaders from all walks of life and on both sides of the partisan divide have paid their respects to him.  Many of Big […]

Hi there all, I am writing to you from sunny Barcelona having temporarily escaped the “winter of our discontent” that is August in the People’s Republic of Collingwood. Last Tuesday […]

How will we know when we have achieved success in Afghanistan? According to Richard Holbrooke, our special envoy to the region, “We’ll know it when we see it.” That’s a […]

With the upcoming Winter Olympics in Vancouver mere months away, the requisite issues have come up. Particularly the issue of performance-enhancing drugs among competing athletes. But a separate drug issue […]