Single-serving metrics are attractive, but they miss the big complicated messy picture.
Author: Joi Ito
Space Exploration and the Age of the Anthropocosmos
The new generation of space architects can learn from our successes and failures in protecting the…
It’s OK That Amazon Will (Likely) Get the .amazon Domain
Based on my time at ICANN, I know how hard it was to make the right…
Optimize Algorithms to Support Kids Online, Not Exploit Them
Young people benefit from their online interactions. Locking them out of the internet isn’t the answer…
I Embraced Screen Time With My Daughter—and I Love It
Everyone frets about screen time, but what they should really be focusing on is something called…
Supposedly ‘Fair’ Algorithms Can Perpetuate Discrimination
How the use of AI runs the risk of recreating the insurance industry's inequities of the…
The Quest to Topple Science-Stymying Academic Paywalls
Scientific publishers charge so much that even Harvard can’t afford it anymore. A new publishing infrastructure…
How Shared, Open Data Can Help Us Better Overcome Disasters
Citizen collection of radiation information after Fukushima and of air quality information after California's wildfires should…
What the Boston School Bus Schedule Can Teach Us About AI
An MIT team built an algorithm to optimize bell times and bus routes. The furor around…
The Next Great (Digital) Extinction
How today's internet is rapidly and indifferently killing off many systems while allowing new types of…