Digital Age

The science writer says we are obsessively pessimistic for no good reason. Our innate ability to innovate with technology is what will  ultimately save us from disaster

The Professor of Internet Regulation at the Oxford Internet Institute selects books on how memories are made and discusses the effect of digital data storage on our perception of the present and the future

The book critic and technology columnist for Time magazine says there's a level on which the Internet is a mass tool for pacification. It allows people to play out their lives in a fantasy context, which is very politically unthreatening. He picks the best books on the World Wide Web.