Salon’s new technology section

Fri, 11 Jan 2013 12:45:00 +0000

The epiphany arrived in a big fat instantaneous download as I stood around a North Florida bonfire over the holidays. I was babbling animatedly to some old friends about my theory that in 2012 the intersection of social media and smartphones had become a force capable of acting as a powerful accelerant for political and social change. Look how fast Komen for the Cure had buckled in the face of social media wrath during the whole Planned Parenthood-defunding debacle, I said. That was just one example of many such turnabouts that came out of nowhere during the past year. Only now, I claimed, we were beginning to harvest the real fruits of the networked, online-anywhere world that had been in the making since at least the mid-'90s.

And then I stopped short, in self-reflective surprise. What do you know? I was excited about technology, again.

As of today, Salon is relaunching a section dedicated to covering technology. Or rather, that constantly bubbling territory where new technology intersects with our evolving culture -- a beat that naturally touches upon politics and economics along with entertainment and media. If you can fit it in a smartphone, I'm going to write about it. And what, really, doesn't fit in your phone anymore?

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Salon’s new technology section