By Gideon Lichfield and Lauren Goode[photo1]ON THIS WEEK'S episode of Have a Nice Future, Gideon Lichfield and Lauren Goode are joined by Ethan Zuckerman, one of the leading thinkers ...
By Virginia Heffernan[photo1]The curious mind of Pete Buttigieg holds much of its functionality in reserve. Even as he discusses railroads and airlines, down to the pointillist data that is his curren...
[photo1]By Mike OrcuttThe pitch sounds like an echo from the distant crypto past, when the blockchain was not only going to fight climate change but also cure cancer. Log on to Minecraft clone OPCraft...
By Kim ZetterSteven Adair wasn't too rattled at first.It was late 2019, and Adair, the president of the security firm Volexity, was investigating a digital security breach at an American think tank. T...
[photo1]By Geoffrey BuntingLooking at typography developed by artificial intelligence is like looking at lettering submerged in deep water, warped and fuzzy. It looks like a copy of a copy of a copy. ...
[photo1]By Maryn McKennaElla Balasa was 26 when she realized the routine medical treatments that sustained her were no longer working. The slender lab assistant had lived since childhood with the side...
[photo1]By John SemleyBlack curtains hang in the windows of a dinky suburban LA apartment, two blocks from the Pacific, blotting out the light. Inside, Thomas Pynchon--early thirties, awkward, with a ...
By Angela Watercutter[photo1]When you're the person (at least partially) responsible for Left Shark, you have to think about every possible way Super Bowl audiences watch halftime shows. That's one of...
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