Annalee Newitz

There is evidence that we are headed into what would be the planet's sixth mass extinction. It's hard to know for sure if you're in one because a mass extinction is an event where over 75 percent of the species on the planet die out over a - usually about a million-year period. The fastest it might happen is in hundreds of thousands of years. ”

When I was a policy analyst at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, I became obsessed with end user license agreements. ”

With technology tracking us everywhere we go, 'cosplay' might become our best defense against surveillance. ”

Capitalism is, fundamentally, an economic system that promotes inequality. ”

The Red' is the first book in a trilogy that gained a big following as a self-published e-book, and is now out in paper from Saga. It introduces us to reluctant hero Shelley, a former anti-war activist who chooses to join the military rather than serve jail time after being arrested at a protest. ”

I am a big proponent of character arcs that show us how people change over time. ”

Your fragile mind can't have forgotten the terrifying technothriller series known 'Scorpion'. Because it features the worst hacking scenes ever broadcast in any medium. ”

When you consider that our technology has advanced from the first telephones to smart phones in roughly a century, it's easy to understand why it seems like tomorrow is arriving faster than it ever did. ”

io9 was the last standalone site that Gawker Media ever launched. It was born at a time when many of the company's other famous sites, from Consumerist and Wonkette to Fleshbot and Idolator, were being sold off or shuttered. ”

We sometimes allow writers to publish their work without editing on io9. ”