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- A New Way of ReadingJuly 7
- I have a piece in the August 2010 issue of the Smithsonian magazine, their 40th Anniversary issue. They commissioned 40 views of the future. I wrote about the future of reading, or what they titled Reading in a Whole New...
- Found Quotes, 2June 16
- "With 300 million people in America, you can fail to impress 299 million of them and still go platinum." -- Kareem Abdul Jabbar TED 2007 "If you want to make the right decision for the future, fear is not a...
- Predicting the Present, First Five Years of WiredMay 26
- I was digging through some files the other day and found this document from 1997. It gathers a set of quotes from issues of Wired magazine in its first five years. I don't recall why I created this (or...
- Get a Job as a Piracy SnitchApril 30
- It's weird. I've listened to particular songs on internet music stations many times over and over again, without paying for them, while I have paid for songs on iTunes and Amazon that I have listened to only once and may...
- Data-Driven LivesApril 29
- A few years ago Gary Wolf and I started a blog called The Quantified Self. It began with our observation that technology allowed people to track their lives in new ways. People would measure their weight, diet, fitness, sleep patterns,...