The World from PRX

women in technology

Barbie dolls are seen in a window of a toy store.
Culture
Barbie typewriter toys had a secret ability to encrypt messages — but they didn’t think girls would care
Jean Jennings Bartik (left) and Frances Bilas Spence (right)  were part of a team of six women who programmed the ENIAC.
Technology
Finding the forgotten women who programmed the world’s first electronic computer
Environment
Connectivity through ‘digital saturation’ may come at the expense of conversation
Business, Economics and Jobs
How to start an energy co-op
Global Politics
Why do we predict?
Health & Medicine
Texting and teen development
Padmasree Warrior on Why She Doesn’t Believe in Work-Life ‘Balance’
In Defense of a Shorter Maternity Leave
Mae Jemison’s Quest to Take us All into Space
Lonely In A Digital Age
Arts, Culture & Media
What Compels Us to Predict an Unknowable Future?
Environment
Is technology tearing us apart?
Global Politics
Tech for the elderly and the risk of a robot takeover
Arts, Culture & Media
Blackberries at the dinner table
Environment
Terminator Salvation: Our Romance with Robots
Global Politics
U.S. college partners with Palestinian school