Over more than a century, PR firms built and fine-tuned a machine to deceive the public. (From the Covering Climate Now series.) More
Democracy Energy & Green Tech Media & Marketing Sustainable Development Goals
You Can’t Beat Climate Change Without Tackling Disinformation
Global Tech Media & Marketing Net Giants
Frances Haugen: I’ve Come Not to Bury Facebook, But to Save It
A change in leadership, employees with backgrounds in humanities, and a switch so a "slower, smaller" approach – this whistleblower darling is on a crusade to save lives by saving Facebook. More
Media & Marketing Net Giants Tech & Society
The Name Facebook Needs to Change: Zuckerberg
Facebook is reported to be considering a name change. But its image will not be remedied by anything other than fundamental reforms. More
Global Tech Media & Marketing Net Giants Tech & Society
Facebook’s Tragic Obsession With Image
Facebook executives and its all-powerful CEO feel so self-righteous that they dismiss all criticism outright, including this week. It’s tragic, but it’s possible to explain. More
Government Media & Marketing Net Giants
New Taxes Could Help Manage Big Tech
We have to find ways to level the playing field or this small group of vastly-powerful companies will continue to amass disproportionate wealth even as they wreak social havoc. Without major systemic changes society will remain the victim of their ever-growing power. More
Media & Marketing Net Giants Society Tech Addiction
Instagram for Kids: Doomed from the Start
Will Facebook continue wading into the quagmire of children’s digital content or double down on the next generation gold rush – the metaverse? More
Global Tech Media & Marketing Net Giants Tech & Society
Outlaw? Pariah? Renegade Empire? Digesting the WSJ Series About Facebook
How can one company make so many mistakes? An astonishing reportorial coup by the Wall Street Journal is rattling Zuckerberg's empire. More
Education Media & Marketing Policy Tech Addiction
Spiritual Opium: China Limits Kids’ Online Gaming Time
Chinese officials unveiled tough new limits on the amount of time its young people can spend playing video games, calling them “opium for the mind.“ Let the experiment begin. More
Business Media & Marketing Tech & Society The Future of Work
Zoom Wants to Be the Center of Your Universe. What Could Go Wrong?
Apps are likely to end up a great way to take rigidity and sameness out of Zoom meetings. But for the moment, to have better meetings you need fewer tools, not more. More
Leadership Media & Marketing Member Insights
Best One in the Zoom: A Practical Guide
TV anchor and coach Jane Hanson told Techonomy members at a special zoom-skills workshop: wear color, elevate your energy, pause...and much more. More
Arts & Culture Media & Marketing Tech & Society
Niantic Calls the Current Metaverse Dystopian
CEO John Hanke made waves this week by saying we should concentrate on building a better reality, not sleeker alternative ones. More
Media & Marketing Net Giants Space
What the Moon and the Metaverse Have in Common
Uncharted territory. The lure of the unknown. And just like with the explorers of yore, the course of history will inevitably be altered by greed, motive, and human error. More
Media & Marketing Tech & Society The Pandemic
An Ode to the Business Card
The death of the business card may be inevitable. But it has an awful lot of cultural, historical, business, and even creative significance. More
Community Insights Global Tech Media & Marketing
Kids have Kickstarted the Metaverse
Today’s children carry the world in their pockets. The metaverse gives them the agency to build and shape that world. More
Analytics & Data Media & Marketing Partner Insights
How the Experience Is Delivered *Is* the Experience
Achieving a consistent, predictable, satisfying ongoing experience for customers requires orchestrating more elements than most leaders recognize. More
E-Commerce Media & Marketing The Pandemic
Beauty Goes Digital–Offline and On
Despite face masks, beauty products sold beautifully during the pandemic. And the industry furthered its pivot to digital, not only online but in stores. Virtual lipstick try-on, anyone? More
AOL and Yahoo: More Media Lives than the Kardashians
Can a private equity firm do better than a telecom as an owner? Don’t throw out your AOL or Yahoo email addresses just yet. More
Arts & Culture Media & Marketing Net Giants
Can Facebook Break the Sound Barrier?
Facebook this week announced a sweeping audio-forward campaign. In a rare interview with a journalist, Zuckerberg elaborated on Facebook’s ambitious plans. More
Media & Marketing Tech & Society The Pandemic
Perfecting the Art of the Virtual (Meeting)
Columnist Raskin has become, during Covid, a curator of the exploding field of event technologies. Here are some innovative ones. Join her own event to learn more. More
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Can Tech Help Creatives Earn a Decent Living
The creative industry – art, music, the theatre – was hit hard by the pandemic. Can new tech help them finally get recognized for what they're worth? More
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