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technology
Essays & reportage
More Star Trek than Terminator?
Joshua Gans and Andrew Leigh
25 November 2019
Can the hopes of tech optimists and the fears of tech pessimists be reconciled?
National affairs
Big tech in the dock
James Panichi
21 November 2019
The world is watching a David and Goliath battle in the Federal Court
Essays & reportage
What Ada Lovelace can teach us about digital technology
Lizzie O’Shea
9 September 2019
Extract
| How collaborative work can be liberating and effective
Books & arts
The tech god that failed
Dominic Kelly
7 June 2019
Books
| Something’s amiss, but has communications strategist Peter Lewis nailed it?
Essays & reportage
Computer says no
Ellen Broad
29 April 2019
The hazards of being a woman in technology
Books & arts
A spectre is haunting the workplace
Brett Evans
11 April 2019
Books
| Employers are exercising an extraordinary level of control — overt and covert — over their workers
Books & arts
Radio revolutionary
Jock Given
14 January 2019
Books
| “Visionary” Sydney-born engineer Cyril Elwell played a pioneering role in what became Silicon Valley
Books & arts
Will a robot take your job?
John Quiggin
27 September 2018
Review essay
| Three new books challenge lazy thinking about job-stealing robots and infallible algorithms
Books & arts
Lost in translation – or should that be transcription?
Merlin Crossley
21 February 2017
Books
| This account of the latest research on genes and society poses some of the right questions
Essays & reportage
Wrestling with Sir Ken
Dean Ashenden
24 June 2015
Dean Ashenden
takes on the sixties, GERM, and the world’s best-known educational revolutionary
Books & arts
A contrarian takes on the internet, again
Ramon Lobato
21 March 2015
Books
| Internet critic Andrew Keen might be the man for the times, but his new book fails to convince
Ramon Lobato
Books & arts
The American dream, in 3D
Angela Daly
14 August 2014
Angela Daly
reviews an award-winning documentary about a technology that could fundamentally change manufacturing
Essays & reportage
The illusionist’s trick
Virginia Lloyd
25 July 2014
Skype has shaped a professional and personal life across two continents, reports
Virginia Lloyd
Essays & reportage
Coming, ready or not
Dean Ashenden
19 November 2013
Technology is going to drive the first revolution in schooling since the invention of the printing press, says
Dean Ashenden
. But it’s not just a matter of the machinery
International
Mobile phone nation
Assa Doron & Robin Jeffrey
14 February 2013
With subscriber numbers heading for a billion, the disruptive impact of mobile phones in India could be enormous. In this extract from their new book,
Robin Jeffrey
and…
International
The Apple farmer
Graeme Orr
10 October 2011
Graeme Orr
looks at responses to the death of the man who stood between consumers and the complexities of science, innovation and corporate strategy
Essays & reportage
Text, text, text
Richard Johnstone
23 October 2008
Is the energy, liveliness and to-the-pointness of text-messaging already history, asks
Richard Johnstone
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