Social Media and Freedom: A Promise Betrayed

Social Media and Freedom: A Promise Betrayed

Facebook and Twitter are now fueling hatred, conflict, repression, and in some cases – genocide. Where do we go from here?  “Is a dream a lie if it don’t come true/Or is it something worse?” Bruce Springsteen, “The River” Back in...

Mobile Phone Wizards

I bought a new Sim card from one of the hundreds of tiny shops that line Insein Road here in Rangoon. The guy on the right here wasn’t absolute magician with my phone. His fingers moved so fast I could barely see them as he was setting up my phone to work on the...