Tim Maly

Tim Maly writes about writes about cyborgs, architects, and our weird broken future at Quiet Babylon. He's a former game designer and the current project lead of Upper Toronto. More

Tim Maly writes about cyborgs, architects, and our weird broken future at Quiet Babylon. He's the project coordinator for Small Wooden Shoe's Upper Toronto, a science fiction design proposal to build a new city in the sky above the current Toronto. With Emily Horne, he is running an independent studio course about border towns, called Border Town. He created and ran 50 Posts About Cyborgs, a month long multi-participant, multimedia celebration of the 50th anniversary of the coining of the term. His work has appeared in Icon, The Atlantic, McSweeney's, Mission at Tenth, and Volume Magazine. He lives in Toronto. He is @doingitwrong on Twitter.

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When Our Lightbulbs Became Computers

When Our Lightbulbs Became Computers

We grew up with cheap, disposable lightbulbs. Now they are gadgets in their own right. More »

How Siri's Robotic Voice Will Help Her Win Your Heart

How Siri's Robotic Voice Will Help Her Win Your Heart

Siri doesn't sound human -- and that's why you'll forgive her when she doesn't understand More »

Life on the Edge: 7 of the World's Most Fascinating Border Towns

Life on the Edge: 7 of the World's Most Fascinating Border Towns

From Berlin to Baarle Hertog, cities built on or divided by borders are places where political and cultural geography is stretched to its limits More »

'Good Souls Corruption' in the Enthusiast Press

'Good Souls Corruption' in the Enthusiast Press

In which it is argued the tech press is composed largely of enthusiasts spinning happy tunes More »

The Emancipated Cyborg

The Emancipated Cyborg

In concluding the 50 Posts About Cyborgs project, we finally ask: Just what is a cyborg anyway? More »

The Internet as Curiosity Machine

The Internet as Curiosity Machine

Maybe we need to wonder and be satisfied, over and over again, as we develop increasingly difficult curiosities to resolve More »

What Wired's 1997 Web Death Knell Got Right

13 years ago, Wired declared the browser dead. We check up on their bold predictions. (Spoiler: they did pretty well.) More »

The Two Minds of Amazon on eBooks

The Two Minds of Amazon on eBooks

The CEO defends unadulterated reading, while his company plans to sell a type of e-book so media-rich and new that they don't even have a name yet More »

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Picking up the Pieces After the Tornado in Moore, Oklahoma

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