Beijing recently ordered its public institutions and government agencies to stop using foreign made computers and software. This move appears to be aimed at American companies, as Washington pursues a ...

Globe-trotting electronic musician and DJ Richie Hawtin is the living embodiment of techno, the man CMJ calls a "techno God." "He doesn't just play techno," the influential publisher of music ...

Such moments are, in a way, the essence of techno — an escape from reality that pulls the dance floor into a raw, instinctive headspace, stripping away self-consciousness. The Sejong Center described ...

If the initial Hackers bands and the second-wave DJs couldn’t pull of a musical revolution – it was more of a brief skirmish that ended in bloodshed – can electronic music become anything more than a ...

It’s all in how you interpret the pieces, as art should be. The newly formed Museum of Techno Art — complete with steampunk art that depicts industrial age-type works to pieces depicting modern-day ...

Fans at Movement Music Festival — from left to right: Saeeda Faridi, Asia Davis, and Shanay Risby. Credit: Douglas Wojciechowski/Paxahau On Memorial Day weekend, a persistent thud spreads over ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Silicon Valley venture capitalist Marc Andreessen penned a 5,000-word manifesto in 2023 that gave a full-throated call for unrestricted technological progress to boost markets, ...

Once a year on Memorial Day weekend the Movement Electronic Music Festival transforms downtown Detroit’s Hart Plaza into an eardrum-splitting playground for tens of thousands of techno fans from ...

SIGN UP for Plaintext and tap Steven's unique insights and unmatched contacts for the long view on tech. Andreessen’s bolt from late-stage capitalism’s Mount Olympus—Silicon Valley’s Sand Hill ...

Just earlier this month, while meeting with Congress to discuss digital privacy, censorship, and transparency, Republican Senator Josh Hawley asked Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg to divest of WhatsApp and ...