This Sociological Theory Explains Why Wall Street Is Rigged for Crisis
In giant, complex systems like global financial markets, terrible accidents are inevitable. More »
The 9 Ways Twitter Could Fail, According to Twitter
Bill Davidow is an adviser to Mohr Davidow Ventures and the author of several books, including Overconnected: The Promise and Threat of the Internet More
In giant, complex systems like global financial markets, terrible accidents are inevitable. More »
It's a lot easier to steal hundreds of millions of dollars now than it used to be More »
Google and other Internet companies should make it clear to users what data they're collecting. More »
Our Internet handlers are using operant conditioning to modify our behavior. More »
Winning in Silicon Valley is about technology, but it is about culture as well. Mayer's first job at Yahoo is to build culture, and she needs her deputies in the office. More »
Much of what we do online releases dopamine into the brain's pleasure centers, resulting in obsessive pleasure-seeking behavior. Technology companies face the option to exploit our addictions for profit. More »
Compare Mark Zuckerberg and Larry Page to the founders of Hewlett Packard and Intel, and you'll find a paradigm shift as to how the tech industry treats its customers. More »
Like overgrazing of public lands or over-fishing of the seas, the digital space will continue to be exploited -- and that's why it needs to be regulated. More »
Information technology has allowed banks to make huge bets that can go bust in the blink of an eye, and more regulation won't help. More »
Just as Henry Ford may not have predicted the rise of drive-in movie theaters, the Internet Age will produce changes to our physical landscape we can't yet envision. More »
Call it the post-employee economy: The digital revolution is creating billions of dollars of wealth in a second world without people. More »
Got an idea that will change the world? It'll probably have some terrible unintended consequences. More »
The result of increased connectivity has been a more volatile and less predictable economy -- and theories that no longer apply to our frenzied world. More »
What do many economists have in common with travel agencies, bookstores and newspapers? They've clung to beliefs and strategies that no longer work in an overconnected world. More »
As more and more information is finding its way onto the Web, great swaths of our physical infrastructure are becoming obsolete. More »
Our minds, bodies, and senses have evolved to live in one world at a time, but we're all trying to live in two—a physical world and a virtual one. More »
Just as fast-food executives have capitalized on reward circuitry in our brains, savvy Internet entrepreneurs could influence our every action More »
The euro was doomed from the beginning: The more interconnected economies become, the more they are susceptible to extreme fluctuations and death spirals More »
Thought contagions, accelerated by the internet, push economies to the brink, burst housing bubbles, and propagate unsettling, radical ideologies More »
