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Jonathan Alcorn / Reuters Network Neutrality Can't Fix the Internet
The FCC is poised to dismantle common carriage for broadband and wireless providers. That’s bad, but the internet itself is worse.
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Ian Bogost / The Atlantic How Driverless Cars Will Change the Feel of Cities
Autonomous vehicles promise safety and efficiency. But nobody knows what it will be like to live with them.
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Twitter Even Trump Is Vulnerable to Internet Chaos
In the same day, the president of the United States and many local journalists both suffered the precariousness of life online.
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Keith Homan / shutterstock / Katie Martin / ... Big Candy Bars Have No Place on Halloween
They ruin the “fun” of the fun-size treat.
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Nelson Cash Netflix’s 'Skip Intro' Button Makes TV Ever More Like an App
The option to bypass title sequences seems convenient, but it also tightens the bond between viewer and screen.
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Julian Bleecker Why Computers Should Be Hidden
A luxury bicycle computer forecasts a welcome future of humble, embedded systems.
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Olly / Santi S / Serg036 / Shutterstock ... You Are Already Living Inside a Computer
Futurists predict a rapture of machines, but reality beat them to it by turning computing into a way of life.
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Marcio Jose Sanchez / AP The Empire of Apple
The company’s new iPhone and retail “town centers” presage a future of Apple as global infrastructure—one that may already have arrived.
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Dado Ruvic / Reuters The Banality of the Equifax Breach
With over half of the entire U.S. adult population potentially exposed, what’s left to do but shrug and sigh?
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Richard Carson / Reuters Houston's Flood Is a Design Problem
It’s not because the water comes in. It’s because it is forced to leave again.
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Christian Hartmann / Reuters A Googler's Would-Be Manifesto Reveals Tech's Rotten Core
Office culture is only part of the problem.
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Stephan Savoia / Pablo Martinez Monsivais / AP ... Why Zuckerberg and Musk Are Fighting About the Robot Future
It looks like the two tech titans are arguing about AI’s impact on humanity. Really they’re protecting their personal brands.
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Breville Why a Toaster Is a Design Triumph
The “A Bit More” button doesn’t reinvent the appliance’s form. It finds its soul instead.
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Fotoslaz / Shutterstock / Paul Spella / The ... The iPhone Is Dead. Long Live the Rectangle
Ten years later, smartphones have been fully domesticated.
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Eric Gaillard / Reuters For Google, Everything Is a Popularity Contest
The limits of the search giant's philosophy
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Matt York / AP Did Climate Change Ground Flights in Phoenix?
Yes, but it didn’t act alone.
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Ian Bogost The App That Does Nothing
A fake social network might be the only thing your smartphone needs.
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Benoit Tessier / Reuters Cryptocurrency Might be a Path to Authoritarianism
Extreme libertarians built blockchain to decentralize government and corporate power. It could consolidate their control instead.
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Fabrizio Bensch / Reuters The Nomad Who’s Exploding the Internet Into Pieces
Could decentralizing online life make it more compatible with human life?
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Amir Cohen / Reuters The Fidget Spinner Explains the World
The latest cultural trend is a perfect fossil of human life in the immediate present.
