Technology

What the Greeks Called Techne

an own goal for the ages

Less Human Than Human: The Design Philosophy of Steve Jobs

To what degree do “good design,” or “taste,” depend on human values?

Not Too Smart Cities

The young man explained to me: It’s a new process for foreigners seeking visa extensions, and the technology is also new.

4 Minute Read

I’m angry because our lives are increasingly meted out in pockets of time, and I want it to stop.

Memento Mori

So Refresh Faster

How to Suck at Business Without Really Trying

I didn’t know the term then, but I had become a toiler on a content farm.

We live in the first draft of an eco-dystopian novel called like “We The Remaining Handful”

Poor eels going nuts because of all the cocaine the former bankers at the Lehman Brothers Collapse Anniversary Cocktail Party are still able to afford.

The Faces of Google Street View

Something interesting sometimes happens, a kind of rupture in the fabric of the Street View universe: the drivers’ faces appear, warped but not blurred.

My name is Sarah Miller and all I want to do is buy a tablet for the love of god

People don’t throw computers across the room because they’re angry. They do it because they hate computers.