SECTION: Features
Identity: the killer app of crowdfunded open hardware
In the next 20 years, the notion of a secure, verifiable identity will drive the adoption of crowdfunded open hardware.
By Joshua Lifton, June 2017
Articles Tagged: Crowdsourcing
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SECTION: Features: On demand labor
The context of on-demand work
Two years of ethnographic fieldwork, in the U.S. and India, together with rich quantitative data, shine light on the world of on-demand work invisible to many of us, yet core to the functioning of the Internet and the future of automation.
By Niloufar Salehi, December 2016
The hidden faces of automation
As we dream of automation, we always need people to calibrate and train what we automate. Automation has hidden human faces.
By Lilly Irani, December 2016