Today's tech helps mostly with retrospective or semantic memory, events or facts we've encountered in the past. Prospective memory is different. It's our ability to remember to remember something -- like stopping to grab the dry cleaning on the way home.

The driverless car is a data detective's dream, a device that can discern when you get a new job, how many one-night stands you have, how often you go to the dentist.

At first afraid to speak out, women are beginning to fight back against the distributors, proprietors and site hosts who comprise the online revenge economy.

By billing itself as a public service, Craigslist put itself in a position to be at the short end of the PR stick now that it's acting like it cares about its market dominance.

A guide to the most compelling new phones.

There is a growing consensus that some traits evident in other addictions also appear in people who admit to problematic relationships with their tablets or smartphones.

On the art world's Instagram obsession.

Techies look to take cryptocurrency legit.

Massive Open Online Courses threaten to aggravate the problems they were designed to solve.

Tips, shortcuts and hacks that make for a smooth ride.

In the age of YouTube and cameraphones, we're increasingly inundated with moving images. But the animated GIF lets us stop and ponder a single moment in the stream, to resee something that otherwise would zip by unnoticed.

Singularity University may well be the prototype institution for revolutionizing education and entrepreneurship.

To be young, technodouchey and shilly at SXSW.

The pre-technological culture of storytelling has been largely dominated by forces who want to sell us franchises, sequels and transmedia narratives spread across multiple platforms.

The long-prophesied phenomenon of everyday devices talking to one another -- and us -- online is becoming a reality.

Concerns about the online world often fixate on cutting-edge digital tech. But, as Robert McChesney points out, "the criticism of out-of-control technology is in large part a critique of out-of-control commercialism."

Geolocation, social book-reading, and the "Internet of things" -- personal objects that talk to us and each other online -- will all provoke widespread flip-outs.

Go Code has developed the means of creating technology to give each house and location a unique identification code, enabling some slum dwellers in India to apply for state assistance, many of them for the first time.

"Cypherpunks: Freedom and the Future of the Internet" should resonate with our apocalyptically minded time, and the author's aspirations may connect with young activists, technologists, and entrepreneurs.

Democrats didn't get good at technology because they undertook central planning. They are good at it because they have an army of grassroots technologists dedicating themselves and their talents to building the progressive technology infrastructure. Republicans depend on mercenary engineers.