The UK government’s science policy isn’t just contradictory, it’s used a stand-in for politics, says science journalist TIMANDRA HARKNESS

Aesthetic experience matters in all other aspects of life so why do software developers treat it like a frivolous luxury?

It doesn’t want anything, says Australian IT professional JONATHAN WALSH. It’s what we want that matters

As ‘lickable’ and beautiful as today’s information interfaces are, JASON WALSH longs for the Rodchenko-like simplicity of the modernist-inspired early Macintosh computers

IT journalism is crap, says JASON WALSH

The anti-iPad backlash is as tedious as Apple worship, says JASON WALSH

forth editor JASON WALSH reporting for the CS Monitor

Why personal communication should be personal, in Global Comment

Since when were software upgrades worth partying about, asks JASON WALSH

Paul Chambers arrested under controversial law and banned from airport for obvious joke, report forth editor JASON WALSH and MARK HUGHES in the Independent of London

Contemporary communication technology is virtually miraculous, says STEPHEN GINN. But let’s leave the decision-making to the humans

Google’s Chrome OS could already be out of date, says Adam Maguire

Jason Walsh is in favour of free software, so why does he have a problem with the worlds of open source and free content?

forth editor Jason Walsh writes in the new Irish site teic.ie about technology’s potential to free humanity

Windows 7 and Mac OS X Snow Leopard have both been released to much public fanfare – god only knows why, says Jason Walsh

In the first of a series of essays entitled ‘What is to be done?’, free software activist and computer programmer Richard Stallman gives his thoughts on the state of the world and what should done about it.