The Price of Cheap: The Hidden Cost of E-Commerce

Oil companies say that demand will never be the same and that refinery cutbacks are necessary to boost sagging profits. Meanwhile, more cash-strapped shoppers are looking to save money and time shopping online. What do these seemingly separate trends have to do with one another? A lot more than you might think. Learn why e-commerce may contribute to increasing fuel prices, inflation and a retail landscape of tomorrow that hardly resembles anything we know today.

To Own or be Owned: A Virtual Reality Check

Amazon recalls illicit digital e-books, and with them our notion that we can ever really own anything "digital". This and other dangerous realities of the e-universe.