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You Should Ditch Work to Go Watch Soccer, Say Productivity Experts | New York Magazine
Christine Rosen, a fellow at the New America Foundation who studies our interactions with technology, pointed to the perils of multitasking. That i...
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Future Tense Initiative Announces Winners of Green Electronics Challenge
WASHINGTON, DC — The Future Tense initiative – a partnership of New America, Arizona State University, and Slate magazine – is pleased to announce ...
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The Father Of Net Neutrality Wants to Fix New York Politics
Tim Wu was barely 30 years old when a concept he invented, network neutrality, became a central part of internet policy debates. Now, a decade late...
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Tim Wu runs for New York State Lieutenant Governor, promising to clamp down on big business
Tim Wu, the Columbia law professor who coined the term "Net Neutrality," is running for Lieutenant Governor of New York State on a leftist, reform ...
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Tim Wu Makes A Bid For Net Neutrality
The internet has revolutionized human connectivity, but can be described, most simply, as a public space. Which is why New York state residents oug...
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The Battle Over Private Search
Of all the news to come out of this week’s Apple Worldwide Developers Conference, one update went almost unnoticed: Apple is partnering with a smal...
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The Rise of Blogger-Activists, and the Regimes that Rule by Fear
Emily Parker, author of Now I Know Who My Comrades Are, joins the program to explain how the Internet is helping to change activism. Click here to ...
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‘Net Neutrality’ Puts FCC at Center of Storm
Silicon Valley is “very frustrated,” said Marvin Ammori, a technology-policy consultant who helped organize a letter of protest to the FCC from mor...
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In Google case, E.U. court says people are entitled to control their own online histories
“It definitely makes Europe a less favorable place for these companies to do business. . . . But that’s a balance these countries are allowed to ma...
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Defending the Open Internet
Tim Wu, 41, a law professor at Columbia University, isn’t a direct participant in the rule making, but he is influencing it. A dozen years ago, bui...
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Death of the Infomercial
Since the 1950s, late night TV has been the world of the infomercial: late night hucksters selling ginsu knives, wearable towels, Snuggies... But i...
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Beyond Net Neutrality
That's how things worked when Tim Wu, an academic who's now a law professor at Columbia, coined the term network neutrality in 2002. ISPs purchased...
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Secret 'Cuban Twitter' Poses Big Hurdle For Bloggers, Exiles
"Cuban authorities already try to paint critical bloggers like Yoani Sanchez as U.S.-funded mercenaries, and the report about ZunZuneo will only gi...
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Future Tense Initiative & Tsinghua University Launch New U.S.-China Green Electronics Competition
Competition to Encourage Innovation on E-Waste Prevention
WASHINGTON, DC — The Future Tense initiative – a partnership of New America, Arizona State University, and Slate magazine – is pleased to announce ...
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Net Neutrality and the Fight for Your TV
“We could remember this as the beginning of the cable-ization of the Internet,” lawyer and Internet policy expert Marvin Ammori said, “where some ‘...
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Twittersphere Rallies to Help Turks By-Pass Block
Emily Parker, a New America Foundation fellow who has a new book on digital activism in authoritarian governments, noted that many people are able ...
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Sheri Fink Win Book Awards
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Sheri Fink were among the winners of the National Book Critics Circle Awards, named Thursday night in New York City. T...
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Comcast and Netflix Reach Deal on Service
Others, including Tim Wu, a Columbia Law School professor and advocate for net neutrality, said the interconnection agreement between Comcast and N...