Slow ideas

We yearn for frictionless technological solutions. But people talking to people is still the way that norms and standards change. | Continue reading


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Claude Shannon, Father of the Information Age, Turns 1100100

Shannon had a weakness for juggling and unicycles, but his fingerprints are on every electronic device we own. | Continue reading


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The Spy Who Came Home

Why an expert in counterterrorism became a beat cop. | Continue reading


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Japan’s Rent-a-Family Industry

People who are short on relatives can hire a husband, a mother, a grandson. The resulting relationships can be more real than you’d expect. | Continue reading


@newyorker.com | 6 years ago

I am the one woman who has it all

I have two kids and the unspoken pressure to act like they don’t exist when I’m on a conference call. | Continue reading


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A Day in the Life of a Modern Shepherd

In his writing and on Twitter, James Rebanks conveys what it means to participate in the land in the twenty-first century. | Continue reading


@newyorker.com | 6 years ago

Susan Kare to Be Awarded AIGA Medal

Susan Kare designed the suite of icons that made the Macintosh revolutionary—a computer that you could communicate with in pictures. | Continue reading


@newyorker.com | 6 years ago

‘2001: A Space Odyssey’: What It Means, and How It Was Made

Fifty years ago, Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke set out to make a new kind of sci-fi. How does their future look now that it’s the past? | Continue reading


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