Welcome to the technopoly. Whether you know it or not, you have been living here all along, and it is a kingdom ruled by machines and where efficiency, progress and numbers dictate the laws and ...

Elon Musk made an explicitly future-forward pitch to Pennsylvania voters Saturday — arguing that a vote for former President Donald Trump was a vote for the progress of humanity itself. “I want a ...

Pop culture hero Justin Timberlake released his new album “Man of the Woods” last Friday, and quickly followed it up with Sunday’s rather underwhelming Super Bowl halftime show. While Timberlake tries ...

Good morning. Fifty years ago, a cogent, convincing critique of a technological society emerged in the West. It has been mostly ignored. What happened? Alan Jacobs explains: “In the 1950s and 1960s, a ...

Postman asks that we consider technology not in terms of efficiency or speed, but rather as how it alters our social conceptions of learning, for instance, and how education is being reformulated ...

I want to second Gaby Chapman’s plea for support of school libraries (“Proficient Readers Need Good School Libraries,” Commentary, Jan. 6, 2010), but I also want to make a more general plea for the ...

In the fall of 2016—the year in which the proportion of online adults using social media reached eighty per cent—I published an Op-Ed in the Times that questioned the popular conception that you need ...

The plethora of cabinets formed by President Paul Biya ever since he came to office in 1982 have invariably been tagged as technocratic in order to distinguish them from those of his predecessor, ...