By Justin Sanders
With their band The Kin, Isaac and Thorald Koren have toured the world with the likes of Pink, Coldplay, and Rod Stewart. At one time, not so long ago, they were bringing their signature brand of high-energy yet introspective alternative rock to crowds of 20,000 people and more – even... Read more
By Ruth Vitale
When I was making my way through the independent film world of the ’90s, there was film piracy. It was hard work then – though not as difficult as making the film itself, mind you. A pirate had to set up multiple VCRs to dub one scratchy VHS tape to... Read more
By Ruth Vitale
In 2009, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg admitted in a Business Insider interview that his prime directive to his developers and team was to “Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.” Zuckerberg would later update that uplifting little motto to the far... Read more
By Richard Schenkman
In 2007, I made a tiny, speculative science-fiction film called The Man from Earth. Scripted by the late, great writer Jerome Bixby, it tells the story of a history professor who reveals to his colleagues that he is a 14,000-year-old Cro-Magnon who has walked the Earth for millennia. I had... Read more
By Justin Sanders
Welcome back to our semi-regular round-up of brilliant commentary about the endlessly burning dumpster fire that is Big Tech. The last time we checked in on what’s wrong with Big Tech, the Federal Trade Commission was about to kick off a historic series of “Hearings on Competition and Consumer Protection... Read more
By Ruth Vitale
Typos are annoying. In fact, there’s no one that hates typos more than me, Ruth Vitale. Ask anyone that works at CreativeFuture. Really. But, at the same time, I trust that most people are smart enough to get by and understand what a writer meant when the mistake is minor.... Read more
By Justin Sanders
Google, and its parent Alphabet, have always shown a remarkable ability to maintain consumer goodwill – their reputation remains strong and their market cap immense despite a litany of misdeeds that would likely have seriously bruised, if not floored, most other companies. What kinds of misdeeds? Harvesting user data en... Read more
By CreativeFuture
From nostalgic front-runners like Super Smash Bros. and The Legend of Zelda to mainstream favorites like Destiny and Fortnite, the video game industry’s hottest properties were a perfect match for live streaming – a widely popular trend that allows gamers to broadcast their gameplay to millions of people. However, the exponential growth... Read more
By Justin Sanders
The science-fiction genre has a way of painting the term “artificial intelligence” (A.I.) with doomsday-tinted strokes, but the more immediate hazard posed by our future machine overlords seems not existential but occupational. A 2017 study released by the McKinsey Global Institute predicted that by 2030, as many as 800 million... Read more
By Justin Sanders
Do the words “Federal Trade Commission filing” suddenly make you really tired? We can’t say we blame you. We just filed one of these things ourselves and believe us, it wasn’t a walk in the park. FTC filings are dense, they’re dry and not for the faint of heart –... Read more