Tracey Harnish

Los Angeles artist and arts blogger

Oliver Wasow is an artist who directs our gaze. Using vernacular photographs or unique images he has fabricated in his studio, he creates a filter through which we look. By categorizing found photographs, he much like a movie editor, directs in a subtle way a narrative story for the observer.

Nir Eyal

Blogger, NirAndFar.com

Ethan Stock lived the Silicon Valley dream. He had recently sold his company to eBay and emanated the tanned skin and relaxed composure you'd expect of someone who just cashed a big corporate check. But I was surprised by what he said next. "Mediocrity is worse than failure, you know?"

Randall Rothenberg

President and CEO, Interactive Advertising Bureau

As consumers migrate from screen to screen and shift from smartphone to tablet to phablet, there is a growing desire for mobile to provide access to useful, relevant information and services more tailored to their needs.

Phyllis Cuttino

Director, Clean Energy, The Pew Charitable Trusts

Tesla's repayment of a Department of Energy loan nine years ahead of schedule is welcome news and another indication that use of electric vehicles is growing -- both here and around the globe.

James Rollins

Author, 'The Eye of God: A Sigma Force Novel'

With today's easy access to technology and knowledge, DIY scientists are popping up all over the United States. The fringes of scientific exploration have shifted out of the white towers of university labs and into neighborhood garages and basements. But with this come risks.

Mike Mokrzycki

Independent, non-partisan survey research consultant

An exhaustive 2008 academic study of polling in the years after 9/11 can help make sense of what might be seen as confused public opinion today on privacy and government surveillance. It also suggests concerns about surveillance may be underreported as some people particularly sensitive about privacy might not take surveys.

Zach Hindin

Writer and musician based in Harlem.

Almost immediately, the press invoked George Orwell to characterize the drama unfolding around Edward Snowden's revelation of the NSA's digitally omniscient domestic surveillance program. It should have been Aldous Huxley.

Laura Merling

Vice President of Ecosystem Development & Platform Solutions, AT&T Business Solutions

These are questions we ask every single day, and I will continue to ask questions to challenge the status quo. Because I know that above it all, it is the questions - not necessarily the answers - that drive our progress and reveal the real opportunities in science, technology, engineering, and math.

Robert J. Elisberg

Screenwriter and columnist

It's one thing to work in the comfort of your residence with its oh-so-easy commute, but so much work today is done on the road -- and technology has gone along for the ride.

Leo Hindery, Jr.

Chairman, U.S. Economy/Smart Globalization Initiative at the New America Foundation

Never has there been a bigger "Scr__ You" to American workers and manufacturing than tax-avoider Apple's tag line on all of its national advertising: "Designed by Apple in California"

Steve Turner

CEO and Founder, Interconnect Media Network Systems

On May 26 alone, there were more than 2.3 million TV-related tweets. That included over 600,000 for that night's NBA game, 230,000 for The Bachelorette and nearly 58,000 for Arrested Development. And that's just the tip of the social TV iceberg.

Joseph Farrell

EVP Operations, BiTE interactive

Last week, the newest frontier in mobility and application development dawned: the "iCar." During its annual World Wide Developer's Conference (WWDC), Apple announced plans to bring the iOS experience in 2014 to at least 12 different car markers.

Tomos Evans

Digital Communications Consultant

Your Facebook 'Like' is worth $174.17. That's the average value social media specialists Syncapse places on each fan of a brand's Facebook page. If you think that's surprising, you're not alone. If you're overjoyed, don't mentally cash a dividend check just yet: That payout doesn't come for free.

Arn Pearson

Vice president for policy and litigation at Common Cause

Now that a major leak has blown the cover off that story and exposed a massive data mining operation by the NSA, will congressional leaders and U.S. Attorney Machen demand justice and rush to convene a grand jury?

Stan Stalnaker

Founder, Hub Culture and Ven Digital Currency

If big data can be used to spy, it can be used to reveal. If it can be used to subjugate, it can be used to liberate. Figuring out those functions is the urgent duty of everyone in tech, and they will have a great impact on how pervasive technology comes to finally be used.

Asoka Bandarage

Author, Sustainability and Well-Being : The Middle Path to Environment, Society and the Economy (Palgrave)

Indeed, is the world just one "great laboratory of life" and is nature to be reduced to its component parts and reintegrated and dominated through technology and the market as envisaged by the likes of Thomas Bacon and Rene Descartes?

John Pavley

CTO @ The Huffington Post, Blogger

I believe the iron triangle applies to almost every human endeavor. From throwing a party to keeping a marriage alive for 28 years, no plan survives it's first encounter with reality. The only real question is which corner of the iron triangle am I going to compromise on?