Maureen Dowd: AI may turn us all into the family pet
Technology titans lacked foresight as to how world is becoming more digital than physical
Your ‘marshmallow brain’ vs your ‘acorn brain’: Breaking the short-term thinking habit
Unthinkable: Acorn brain worries about pensions. Marshmallow brain thinks short-term
Facebook must do far more to regulate its content
Social networks designed to build communities are too often used to split societies
Maureen Dowd: Why does Trump insist on hugging Putin the menace?
Perhaps it’s an Oedipal thing, that Putin reminds Trump of his authoritarian father
Maureen Dowd: Twitter addict Trump is making America meaner
Hostility that so easily flows from his fingers now defines his immigration policy
Maureen Dowd: United States of con artists is our modern reality
White House, FBI, Hollywood, tech sector, education, media are all snake-oil salesmen
Culture Shock: Rage against the machine – why we don’t have to let the robots win
From iPhones to Daft Punk, technology has made us something more than human and less than people. But there is another vision of the world
Europe defies Big Data’s right to All Data
The European Court of Justice’s ruling enshrines the right to forget
Mania for getting things for free carries a corollary that diminishes the human
Opinion: Technology must not be allowed to continue to destroy employment
Jaron Lanier: the online guru who says the internet is out to steal your job
Silicon Valley pioneer Jaron Lanier says information should not be free and that digital technology is eroding the middle-class
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