Verification fragments an open platform based on social hierarchy and provides rewards and treatment accordingly.

Crowdsourcing and microtransactions are two halves of the same coin: they both mark new stages in the continuing devaluation of labour.

We have reduced the notion of health to a set of standards that tend to be binary, arbitrary, or both.

Technologies have politics and games have aesthetics, but neither of these factors are immutable; there might still be time to rewrite the purpose of the iPhone’s accelerometer and motion co-processor.