“The Truth Is Out There” A seemingly benign sentiment that speaks to both the simplest of wonders and most esoteric dialogue a person can muster. In 1993, The X-Files had us believing that what was out there was aliens. Then The Matrix happened. Now, the Internet has asserted that it... More
VIA DIGITAL TRENDS “The pantheon of bodily devotion to tech just got a new hero: Meet Dave Hurban. He’s the guy that embedded 4 magnets in his left wrist in order to attach an iPod Nano to his body. The project is called iDermal, and Hurban can now simply rest... More
Everything cool becomes mainstream eventually. That is to say that even if something (a band, bar, style, sitcom, religion) is just as good or better than before, people get used to it and often take pleasure in the fact that they can now look upon it with disdain or superiority.... More
If I were to ask you to name a machine that people connect to in order to live, is your first response an iPhone or an iron lung? Leave Your Phone at Home Day will determine whether these machines represent essentially the same thing, as if we do in fact... More
Siri: What is the meaning of life? I don’t know anymore is what she should say. Instead, she (it) just spouts back “Lord Vader, you’re holding me. The iPhone 4[ish] is the best lifestyle addition you could possibly have. Through my easy-to-use system you can access an ever-sprawling selection of applications... More
VIA THE NEW YORK TIMES People who constantly reach into a pocket to check a smartphone for bits of information will soon have another option: a pair of Google-made glasses that will be able to stream information to the wearer’s eyeballs in real time. [...Full Story] More
We love our pets. They’re our companions, housemates and friends. We give them names. We give them treats. We display their photos and speak about them proudly, and sometimes, we speak for them. As a society, we love our pets. We also really love our Facebook. We give it lots... More
On January 19, 2012, New Zealand’s counter-terrorism unit invaded an Auckland compound, rappelling down from helicopters, breaking down doors, wielding M4 carbines and dressed in civilian clothes under their flak jackets. Their target, Kim Dotcom, had been an international fugitive for two weeks, and in that time had not moved once. They... More
A great deal of the time, journalists appear to be asking: What is this thing that everybody’s doing? It appears to be completely normal, so why can’t I write about it correctly? In the past, writers have failed to capture the essence of trends in popular music, television shows,... More
’84 babies, plus or minus a couple years, were the first to grow up with internet but the last to remember life without it. It’s scary to think that this perspective will be unavailable to future generations. Every generation believes they’re nothing like the previous one, but now it’s true. Technology is... More
For a whole generation of digital natives, who have known and used the Internet since we were at least teenagers, the concept of sharing our thoughts, ideas, and experiences and getting immediate feedback holds little wonder. But does someone ‘liking’ our Facebook status or ‘@ replying’ to Twitter updates actually... More
I am in Tokyo, on the balcony of my 30th floor hotel room, looking down on the bustling city after dark. I am trapped beneath the black night sky, surrounded by glass skyscrapers, bright neon lights and the endless city. Two hundred and twenty miles above are astronauts aboard the... More
“The Truth Is Out There” A seemingly benign sentiment that speaks to both the simplest of wonders and most esoteric dialogue a person can muster. In 1993, The X-Files had us believing that what was out there was aliens. Then The Matrix happened. Now, the Internet has asserted that it... More
Everything cool becomes mainstream eventually. That is to say that even if something (a band, bar, style, sitcom, religion) is just as good or better than before, people get used to it and often take pleasure in the fact that they can now look upon it with disdain or superiority.... More
If I were to ask you to name a machine that people connect to in order to live, is your first response an iPhone or an iron lung? Leave Your Phone at Home Day will determine whether these machines represent essentially the same thing, as if we do in fact... More
Siri: What is the meaning of life? I don’t know anymore is what she should say. Instead, she (it) just spouts back “Lord Vader, you’re holding me. The iPhone 4[ish] is the best lifestyle addition you could possibly have. Through my easy-to-use system you can access an ever-sprawling selection of applications... More
We love our pets. They’re our companions, housemates and friends. We give them names. We give them treats. We display their photos and speak about them proudly, and sometimes, we speak for them. As a society, we love our pets. We also really love our Facebook. We give it lots... More
On January 19, 2012, New Zealand’s counter-terrorism unit invaded an Auckland compound, rappelling down from helicopters, breaking down doors, wielding M4 carbines and dressed in civilian clothes under their flak jackets. Their target, Kim Dotcom, had been an international fugitive for two weeks, and in that time had not moved once. They... More
A great deal of the time, journalists appear to be asking: What is this thing that everybody’s doing? It appears to be completely normal, so why can’t I write about it correctly? In the past, writers have failed to capture the essence of trends in popular music, television shows,... More
’84 babies, plus or minus a couple years, were the first to grow up with internet but the last to remember life without it. It’s scary to think that this perspective will be unavailable to future generations. Every generation believes they’re nothing like the previous one, but now it’s true. Technology is... More
For a whole generation of digital natives, who have known and used the Internet since we were at least teenagers, the concept of sharing our thoughts, ideas, and experiences and getting immediate feedback holds little wonder. But does someone ‘liking’ our Facebook status or ‘@ replying’ to Twitter updates actually... More
I am in Tokyo, on the balcony of my 30th floor hotel room, looking down on the bustling city after dark. I am trapped beneath the black night sky, surrounded by glass skyscrapers, bright neon lights and the endless city. Two hundred and twenty miles above are astronauts aboard the... More
