Science / Technology
Articles about Technology, ordered by date. 
'Because the river told me'
Peasant farmers resisting the violence of agribusiness. By Nils McCune.
Technology as if people mattered*
The world's poor are still losing out. They need a better deal, argues Dinyar Godrej.
Net gains for politicians
Steve Parry explains why politicians and the internet don't get on.
New app could help Iranians avoid morality police
Hazel Healy reports on an innovation that could help women in Iran.
If Google and Facebook can flip elections does code now rule the real world?
Internet users used to be worried about government control of the web but the opposite may be true, writes Chris Spannos
In the eye of a Twitter storm
Steve Parry experiences Trolling and is still recovering.
Is social media doing social harm?
Meredith L Patterson and Deanna Zandt go head to head.
The case against the future
Hal Niedzviecki considers the case against the future.
Will humans survive the new economy of the 21st century?
Edouard Tétreau makes the case for a more humane economics.
A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace
John Perry Barlow’s visionary 1996 statement.
Mind your own business
Privacy International’s Eric King on resisting surveillance.
Tread softly in cyberspace
Dunja Mijatović makes the case for light-touch regulation.
Dreams of freedom, dreams of domination
How the internet got colonized, by Jillian C York.
More noise than signal
Micah L Sifry assesses the political limits of social media.
Democracy in the digital era
Activist and Icelandic Pirate Party MP Birgitta Jónsdóttir on what we can do and the tools we can all use to strengthen democracy and make it real.
Where are the disappeared?
DNA breakthrough gives hope to Guatemalans still searching for the graves of their loved ones.
And finally: Uri Fruchtmann
The filmmaker and director tells Jo Lateu why he supports activists who expose wrongdoing through video.
Abled people say
Other people’s comments can be devastating – but a Twitter campaign is exposing the ‘able’ world’s prejudices and ignorance. Koren Helbig explains.
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