We Don’t Need Social Media

Instead of wishing for better kinds of social platforms, we should question if they’re worth having at all | Continue reading


@onezero.medium.com | 4 years ago

Microsoft Failed Devs and Now It Has a Plan to Win Them Back

So long, MacBooks. Hello, Linux! | Continue reading


@onezero.medium.com | 4 years ago

Warning Signs That a Bubble Is About to Burst

You don’t need a Nobel to see the similarities between 1999 and 2019 | Continue reading


@onezero.medium.com | 4 years ago

Smartphone Apps Are Filled with Trackers You Know Nothing About

The privacy crisis Apple and Google need to fix—now | Continue reading


@onezero.medium.com | 4 years ago

The Global Attention Span Is Getting Shorter

This is the consequence of information overflow | Continue reading


@onezero.medium.com | 4 years ago

The End of App Stores Is Rapidly Approaching

Progressive web apps may soon free you from Google Play and the iOS App Store | Continue reading


@onezero.medium.com | 4 years ago

The Rebellion Against China’s 996 Culture

Workers will no longer tolerate the punishing schedules of the technology giants | Continue reading


@onezero.medium.com | 5 years ago

The Insane Demand for Cybersecurity Workers

By 2021, there will be roughly 3.5 million unfilled cybersecurity jobs across the globe | Continue reading


@onezero.medium.com | 5 years ago

Dirty AirPods Are Grosser Than You Think

Here’s what lives on your grimy earbuds — and how to clean them | Continue reading


@onezero.medium.com | 5 years ago

The Racist–and High Tech–Origins of America’s Modern Census

How the tools built to conduct the U.S. Census fueled Nazi genocide, internment, and state-sanctioned racism — and helped usher in the… | Continue reading


@onezero.medium.com | 5 years ago

America’s Favorite Door-Locking App Has a Data Privacy Problem

Great for landlords. Not so great for you. | Continue reading


@onezero.medium.com | 5 years ago

The Tyranny of Convenience: the future we all chose, but nobody seems to want

Welcome to the future we all chose, but that nobody seems to want | Continue reading


@onezero.medium.com | 5 years ago

The Dawn of the Reliance Economy

Your attention was never the endgame | Continue reading


@onezero.medium.com | 5 years ago

Open Source and AWS

For open-source developers, AWS has gone from a neutral platform to a cutthroat competitor | Continue reading


@onezero.medium.com | 5 years ago

Machine Learning Widens the Gap Between Knowledge and Understanding

And gives us the tools for our next evolutionary step | Continue reading


@onezero.medium.com | 5 years ago

Can Data Be Anonymized?

Cleaning data of ‘personally identifying information’ is harder than you might think | Continue reading


@onezero.medium.com | 5 years ago

The Efficiency Delusion

Optimizing how we live, work, and play is embedded deep in the psyche of coders and American culture. But how much efficiency is too much? | Continue reading


@onezero.medium.com | 5 years ago

Smartphone Apps Are Filled with Trackers You Know Nothing About

The privacy crisis Apple and Google need to fix—now | Continue reading


@onezero.medium.com | 5 years ago

No One Knows How Dangerous Boeing’s 737 Max Is

A faulty automated system leaves lingering questions | Continue reading


@onezero.medium.com | 5 years ago

Social Media Is Making Us Numb to Tragedy – OneZero

Is the collective horror of the world’s tragedies diminishing the weight of each individual crisis? | Continue reading


@onezero.medium.com | 5 years ago

Landlord 2.0: Tech’s New Rentier Capitalism

By selling us hardware but retaining ownership of software and data, tech companies are treating users like digital tenants | Continue reading


@onezero.medium.com | 5 years ago

Google Could Learn a Lot About You from Its New Gaming Platform

Stadia sounds great, but don’t forget Google is a research company | Continue reading


@onezero.medium.com | 5 years ago

Why Google+ Failed – “Deep flaws embedded in it from the start”

Google Plus didn’t fail because Facebook is invulnerable. It failed because of deep flaws embedded in it from the very start. | Continue reading


@onezero.medium.com | 5 years ago

“They thought it was black magic”: an oral history of TiVo

How the original DVR paved the way for Netflix and the cord-cutter movement | Continue reading


@onezero.medium.com | 5 years ago

The Internet’s Phone Book Is Broken

The problems with DNS don’t stop at privacy | Continue reading


@onezero.medium.com | 5 years ago

DNS Is a Mess and Hackers Are Having a Field Day

The problems with DNS don’t stop at privacy | Continue reading


@onezero.medium.com | 5 years ago

I quickly discovered that Postmates was a genius at luring me back online

I quickly discovered that Postmates was a genius at luring me back online | Continue reading


@onezero.medium.com | 5 years ago