Creative Good
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Our human legacy is... Facebook?
Protecting elders and kids from predatory tech
The garbage on our screens
How it’s going in tech – without ethics
AI isn’t meant for us
Starlink bestows, or forces, the digital age on an Amazonian tribe
Microsoft Recall should make you consider Linux
Google goes bananums for AI
Apple made a terrible mistake: it told the truth
To resist the robots, get a typewriter
Big Tech’s corruption was 25 years in the making
China and TikTok
Surviving the customer experience winter
The gaping void in San Francisco, New York, and Cambridge
Vision Pro, unscrambled, is “I Poison VR”
Resisting Silicon Valley’s cult of “more”
The airplane blowout came from our rotten Big Tech economy
Instagram’s unmentionable problem
Marc Andreessen is right – love doesn’t scale
Facial recognition and the end of privacy – with Kashmir Hill
The Luddites warned us about Google
Celebrating 25 years of this newsletter – and an announcement
Surveillance spreading
Disaster alerts reveal a better way to design tech
Don’t throw technology at it
AI is spackle
Hacks of the ultra-rich, as revealed by Bruce Schneier and Josh O’Kane
Why car companies (still) ignore customers
A walk around the world raises questions about tech
Three things you should listen to
An addiction machine for our age
Rejecting the Apple Vision Pro
What you missed about Google and Amazon
Why customers don’t want chat bots
The giant brain suck of 2023
My 26-hour delay on Delta Air Lines
Is AI a demon or what
AI plus whatever
ChatGPT’s dangers are starting to show
A Simple Desultory Techtonic
A picture of the future
Where are the customers’ chats?
Sassy AIs are not the problem
AI is creating the Play-Doh internet
Who’s responsible for fixing tech?
How Google profits from criminal activity
ChatGPT’s drawbacks, and how to respond
A new year to make tech better
A few more inspiring people
Why we can’t trust Apple
Bonfire of the vanity project
As cities embrace surveillance, we can resist
A future for people doing good work
Scary Silicon Valley: A Halloween update on Big Tech
Moralists, unite
A song about surveillance
AI is already turning against you. We can fix it.
Waking up to the genetic surveillance state
Why Amazon bought Roomba
A “what now?” moment
A most welcome decline
An “internet for the people” or a plastic beach
Our last chance in tech
Jennifer Egan and a Forum update
Citizenship and smartphones
Celebrating one year of the Creative Good community
A cryptocurrency explainer
The religion of Silicon Valley
Walking away from tech
Where to go after Twitter
What Elon Musk is really up to, with Twitter
An alternative to Amazon, and avoiding data brokers
God, death, and tech with Sasha Stiles
The web as monopolized surveillance space
Human rights and digital spycraft
Designing for deceit in Silicon Valley
Security settings won’t save us
Bandcamp risks becoming an Epic failure
Ukraine, Russia, and resources to help and learn more
The restart of history
Past the valley: Deepfakes are achieving lifelike status
Why you should resist Amazon by cancelling your Prime account
Facebook tells the truth in its Super Bowl ad
What happened to the monkeys with Elon Musk’s brain implant
Concentration of power is the problem
We said ‘never again.’ Now look at Xinjiang
Facebook patents and the comet in Don’t Look Up
I founded Creative Good 25 years ago today – and learned a few things
Are Facebook and Google criminal enterprises?
Move slowly and don’t break things
My predictions for Apple’s smart glasses
Indigenous thinking and the future of civilization
What Jaron Lanier gets right, and wrong, about the metaverse
Tesla is a meme stock and everything is dumb
The banality of tech
Big questions, answered by Big Tech
Smiling in the metaverse
Big Tech’s latest misbehavior calls for action
Facebook’s laughable response to the whistleblower
Get your community organization off of Facebook. Right now.
Voice surveillance must die
The fall of Facebook
So, “Zuck talk” is, like, increasing, right?
Robots in baseball
Why we might transform computers into “tiles”
Explaining the last 20 years
What to do when the storm arrives
Public libraries are better than Google
WeWork and waste
How to prove vaccine status – with privacy
We can’t trust tech, from A(pple) to Z(oom)
On resisting emperors and their delusions
Cameras and con games: Silicon Valley’s demented fun house
The spirit of New York, and the internet, depend on what we believe in
We finally have a chance to break up Amazon
Beijing is giving orders to Big Tech, the NBA, and... John Cena?
Why you should pay attention to ‘Made in China’
Is your phone listening to you? A response to the "toothpaste" thread
Apple is rotting. Live Photos shows why.
Paying respect to our new techno-king
Announcing the Creative Good community
Senators and flamethrowers
The future and the remotest beach in the world
Grasping for facts while Google lies
When customer obsession goes wrong
Our system is clogged by something bigger than a boat
Yes, handcuffs will fit Big Tech CEOs