Greg Beato is a contributing editor at Reason. He has written for dozens of publications, including SPIN, Wired, Business 2.0, and the San Francisco Chronicle.
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A Surveillance State Doesn't Have To Be a Police State
Is it time to crowdsource law enforcement?
A New Life for Old Food
How technology reduces waste by getting excess edibles to those who can still use them.
Better Government Through Crowdsourcing
Can Americans' collective wisdom solve our collective problems?
Cameras in the Court
Will allowing recording devices unleash the Supremes' inner Judge Judys?
Helpful Hackers vs. College Regulators
Why are state governments cracking down on innovative coding academies?
The Quantified Citizen
Engineering happiness might sound good, but it will leave us all less free.
Big Sugar Leaves a Bitter Aftertaste
It's time to end the sugar industry's corrupt sweetheart deals.
Stop Complaining About That Flying Car. You Have Amazon.
Getting stuff gets more awesome every day.
Meet the New Warm Fuzzy Payday Lenders
A better approach for a controversial industry
The Surprising Power of Subtitles
From Jesus on a bed sheet in Tagalog to Rasputin rapping in Ukrainian
Soylent Cuisine
The trendy new food substitute is made by people and for people-not of people.
Smart Apps vs. Obamacare
The Affordable Care Act locks in the status quo, but new technology is making health care cheaper and more individualized.
The DIY Drug Prize
The federal government should offer prize money for the creation of a safer, better high.
Online Higher Education Retools
For those who believe that higher education should be personalized, inexpensive, accessible, and geared toward helping students acquire useful skills, utopia is on the horizon.
The Benefits of Unregulated Pot
California's "wild west" demonstrates the domesticating power of capitalism.
Number-Crunching the Courts
It's time to bring data-driven oversight to the nation's halls of justice.
Replacing Street Lights With Glowing Trees
A tale of crowdsourced DIY bioengineering
Google's Driverless Future
Will self-piloting vehicles rob us of the last of our privacy and autonomy?
The iPhone Crime Wave
What Gotham's gobbled Apples reveal about the nation's falling crime rates
Mayor Bloomberg Is Trying to Create Prohibition Lite
Bloomberg and his confederates have effectively nudged thousands of smokers and shopkeepers into criminal behavior.
How the Government Turned Comic Books Into Propaganda
The use of government-issued comics for purposes of indoctrination.
Moneyball in the Workplace
Employment personality tests have evolved from phrenology to Facebook.
Twitter: Free Speech in 140 Characters
The virtues of pseudonymity in an age of full disclosure
How Graffiti Empowers Big Government
While advocates present graffiti as a liberating force, graffiti has also given local governments a pretext to expand their coercive powers.
How YouTube Saved TV
From farting babies to multiplatform sitcoms, the online video giant has it all.
How Capitalism Made the Christmas Tree Better
Originally intended as an antidote to commercialism, the Christmas tree soon had the opposite impact.
In Defense of Black Friday Shopping
Like Thanksgiving and Christmas, Black Friday celebrates bounty and benevolence.
Big Brother's Border Blindness
After 15 years and billions of dollars, the virtual border fence is still just a mirage.
Raise the Speed Limit
The surveillance technologies deployed on roadways across the U.S. don't need to be so unilaterally oppressive.
Welcome to the Golden Age of Fact-Checking
What the Jonah Lehrer debacle reveals about the state of journalism today
Privacy for Sale
Welcome to the brave new world of encryption apps, real-time marketing, and using your face to shop.
Turning Comic Books Into Art
The world of high art celebrates pioneering comics creator Daniel Clowes.
