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Jonathan Zittrain discusses the role that a common breed of junk mail plays in determining the actual price of stocks.
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A discussion with the professor and co-founder of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School.
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The Professor of Law reflects on the potential wonders and horrors of our techno-driven future.
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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.
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A Harvard Law Professor explains the potential underbelly of technological convenience—an unshakable, and often citizen-enforced, system of surveillance.
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Jonathan Zittrain discusses the prospect of an “anchor point” in cyberspace.
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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.
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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 […]
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A conversation with the business and economics columnist at Time Magazine.
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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 […]
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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.
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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.
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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 […]
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A conversation with the director of Harvard’s Human Rights and Social Movements Program.
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A clear generation gap separates pre- and post- Stonewall homosexuals. That doesn’t mean young people face an easy road ahead, says human rights activist Tim McCarthy.
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Historian Tim McCarthy argues that new media isn’t necessarily the best method for organizing the next great social movement.
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Why hasn’t the president signed an executive order to overturn “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell?”
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There’s a reason Harvard lecturer Tim McCarthy uses hip hop to teach students about the evolution and devolution of urban youth protest.
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Human rights advocate Tim McCarthy worries that there’s been an overemphasis on fighting for a right that shouldn’t be at the forefront of the gay rights movement.
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Historian Tim McCarthy sees pros and cons to using the riots as a point of origin for the gay rights movement.