Building and Preserving the Library of Everything
All this season, “How to Fix the Internet” has been focusing on the tools and technology of freedom – and one of the most important tools of freedom i...
Protecting Privacy in Your Brain
The human brain might be the grandest computer of all, but in this episode, we talk to two experts who confirm that the ability for tech to decipher t...
Separating AI Hope from AI Hype
If you believe the hype, artificial intelligence will soon take all our jobs, or solve all our problems, or destroy all boundaries between reality and...
Smashing the Tech Oligarchy
Many of the internet’s thorniest problems can be attributed to the concentration of power in a few corporate hands: the surveillance capitalism that m...
Finding the Joy in Digital Security
Many people approach digital security training with furrowed brows, as an obstacle to overcome. But what if learning to keep your tech safe and secure...
Cryptography Makes a Post-Quantum Leap
The cryptography that protects our privacy and security online relies on the fact that even the strongest computers will take essentially forever to d...
Securing Journalism on the ‘Data-Greedy’ Internet
Public-interest journalism speaks truth to power, so protecting press freedom is part of protecting democracy. But what does it take to digitally secu...
Why Three is Tor's Magic Number
Many in Silicon Valley, and in U.S. business at large, seem to believe innovation springs only from competition, a race to build the next big thing fi...
Love the Internet Before You Hate On It
There’s a weird belief out there that tech critics hate technology. But do movie critics hate movies? Do food critics hate food? No! The most effectiv...
Digital Autonomy for Bodily Autonomy
We all leave digital trails as we navigate the internet – records of what we searched for, what we bought, who we talked to, where we went or want to ...