Imaginary Worlds: How to Go to Infinity and Beyond
Science Fiction Spaceships
Napster With Niko Stratis
This week, a tale of two Shawns/Seans, their impossible dream, and the file sharing service that lived fast, died young, and helped create the internet as we know it. Plus,…
One Year: The Day the Music Stopped – 99% Invisible
The problem seems not to be new technology but who owns the means of production.
Sell This Book!
Corporate publishing wants to turn all readers into renters. We’re trying to stop them. Maybe you’ve noticed how things keep disappearing—or stop working—when you “buy” them online from big platforms…
Carbon-based inks make first fully recyclable transistors – Physics World
New devices address the growing problem of electronic waste
DuckDuckGo’s Quest to Prove Online Privacy Is Possible
Whether that mission succeeds could have consequences far beyond DuckDuckGo’s bottom line. DuckDuckGo is operating to some extent in the shadow of Apple, which has already made privacy a core…
Silicon Valley’s propaganda machine
The Future is here. After announcing it was getting into the content game earlier this year, venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, or a16z, launched its Future blog this week to…
I have one of the most advanced prosthetic arms in the world — and I hate it
Being a cyborg is cool right now, thanks in large part to gee-whiz media coverage. But actually using a bionic arm can really suck.
How Detroit residents are building their own internet
Detroit has historically been one of the least connected cities in America, with about 40 percent of Detroit residents lacking any home internet access at all. Things are changing, though,…
Poor in Tech
I knew I was the only poor person at my tech startup because one time everyone else in my department quit or was fired in the space of six months,…