Comparing the BBC to a militant communist movement has become standard slander for the right-wing who believe everything ought to be up for grabs by shareholder-run corporations, and disagree that information should be a basic human right, writes Jay Baker.

Mind reading may now be a reality, after psychologists at UCLA used a brain-imaging technique called functional magnetic resonance imaging to study whether or not these brain scans could predict people's behavior, writes Linda Shiue.

Digitization plus connectivity has increased the amount of information it’s now possible to consume to the extent that our attention is now fragmented all of the time. Multitasking is a requirement nowadays, even for children to the extent that it’s near impossible to be bored, with a constant stream of aural and visual information filling our brains. But multitasking is killing deep thinking. We need to allow ourselves to be bored in order to find new ways of doing things. Richard Watson calls for people to take themselves off for 24 hours in total seclusion and silence and literally do nothing.

The recent Ofcom report that many internet service providers in the UK are advertising higher broadband speeds than they’re actually delivering is another blow to democracy, writes Jay Baker.

If an IT giant has its way, we’ll all be forced to have a microchip, known as PositiveID, implanted in our bodies. Greg Nikolettos believes this is anything but a positive move.

The creative, emotional and spiritual potential of digital tools is very real – but only if we make the time to take a break in between multi-tasking, writes William Powers.

There's nothing wrong with electronic reading devices, but Alan Nothnagle draws the line at reading works of literature online. Here’s why.

The loss of innocence is a nearly universal experience online. It occurs when one’s initial surge of idealistic delight at the freedom and opportunities of boundless self-expression slams into the realities of the media business online – as a group of sci-fi bloggers found out recently, writes Scott Rosenberg.