David Weinberger
Former Digital Trends Contributor
Dr. Weinberger is a senior researcher at the Berkman Center. He has been a philosophy professor, journalist, strategic marketing consultant to high tech companies, Internet entrepreneur, advisor to several presidential campaigns, and a Franklin Fellow at the US State Department. He was for four years the co-director of the Harvard Library Innovation Lab, focusing on the future of libraries.
Do humans make computers smarter?
Humans still outperform computers at many tasks, but as AI advances, will our intervention help them or hobble them? It’s complicated.
Why pop culture’s zombie fixation is really the Internet’s fault
Our zombie fascination might seem like a blip on pop-culture radar, but the viral way this fictional apocalypse spreads may be rooted in broader fears about our lives on the Internet.
What Facebook should learn from this ‘colonialism’ debacle
Facebook board member Marc Andreessen is under fire for raising the issue of colonialism after India shut down its Free Basics Internet service for violating Net neutrality. We break down the idea of colonialism and the Internet.
YouTube is copying the RIAA’s legal tactics, except this time you win
To defend the legitimate reuse of copyrighted material and limit excess DMCA takedown notices, Google plans to defending uploaders of videos to YouTube.
