By Emily Buder When Victoria Mapplebeck found her decades-old Nokia phone hidden in the back of a kitchen drawer, she was forced to relive a story she had worked hard to forget. “I realized I’d unwittingly archived a three-year message…
PLANET MONEY: Bitcoin Losers
Plenty of people will tell you they’re getting rich off of bitcoin. They could be right. But there’s another group of bitcoin owners that aren’t so ecstatic. Because they might be rich, too, but they lost the passkey that would…
The Carrier Myth Involves Automation (6 minutes, 2016)
During the 2016 election, the Carrier factory’s decision to move jobs from Indiana to Mexico was a story that stuck. Donald Trump won a political victory when he convinced the CEO of Carrier’s parent company, United Technologies, to keep 800…
Aaron Swartz: Life and Legacy
On this VICE podcast host Reihan Salam sits down with filmmaker Brian Knappenberger upon the release of his documentary film, The Internet’s Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz.
Wattpad: The Social Reading Machine
From A Total Disruption video channel: The next time you hear someone say “no one reads anymore,” show them Wattpad. With more than 20 million users, Wattpad is the world’s largest community for readers and writers, and to the consternation…
The Problem With Facebook
2veritasium expresses what many of us are thinking every time we use Facebook these days — that it’s become a sad, damaging joke. It’s turned into a money-making machine when it once was a place to share things and expand…