We yearn for frictionless technological solutions. But people talking to people is still the way that norms and standards change. | Continue reading
Shannon had a weakness for juggling and unicycles, but his fingerprints are on every electronic device we own. | Continue reading
Why an expert in counterterrorism became a beat cop. | Continue reading
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
I have two kids and the unspoken pressure to act like they don’t exist when I’m on a conference call. | Continue reading
In his writing and on Twitter, James Rebanks conveys what it means to participate in the land in the twenty-first century. | Continue reading
Susan Kare designed the suite of icons that made the Macintosh revolutionary—a computer that you could communicate with in pictures. | Continue reading
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