Limitless
Constraints inspire creativity. Why hasn’t the Internet gotten the memo? You cannot reach the end of the Internet. I have tried, but there’s always one more photo worth viewing that inspires awe or...
View ArticleHot on the Paper Trail
A receipt should be a chance to say more than “Thank you for shopping!” “What if we see the receipt more as a publishing medium?” Square CEO and Twitter cofounder Jack Dorsey told retailers at their...
View ArticleA New Social Contract
What if brands stepped away from trying to be part of the conversation and made products worthy of being talked about? Let’s pour out a 2-liter Pepsi for Papa John’s. Earlier this year, the pizza baron...
View ArticleHelp, I’ve been Growth-hacked!
What are the repercussions of engineering rapid success at any cost? Just messing with people’s lives, that’s all. The app was called Have It All. It promised smarter contacts, calendar, messaging,...
View ArticleUnplugging’s a Beach
A digital detox can be as reinvigorating as an island getaway, but routine, short tech breaks can be even more refreshing. A year ago, I shared in these pages the story of my 25-day digital “unplug.”...
View ArticleWe Cheer! We lead! We Know There is a Need!
Why playful virtual protests of real-world indignities can be more effective than playing the outrage card This past May, a gay couple dined at a Pittsburg, Texas, establishment called Big Earl’s Bait...
View ArticleThis Is Not a Joke
Facebook tested flagging fake articles as “satire”? You’ve got to be kidding me. This is why algorithms can’t solve everything. While you were busy liking family photos and taking BuzzFeed quizzes, you...
View ArticleTech Needs a Hug
Why we must remember to embrace humanity in a digital-mad world. Let’s stop using the word technology to describe companies. Remember when we had retailers, news organizations, and taxi companies? When...
View ArticleHopping Off The New-Device Treadmill
We have Slow Food, Slow Money, and even Slow Programming. Where is the outcry for a Slow Smartphone movement? My iPhone is getting smaller. At least it feels that way, thanks to the Theory of Device...
View ArticleIt’s Time for Tech to Embrace Prison Reform
Let’s embrace prison reform, rather than just rethink education and immigration, to help address our labor issues. Shaka Senghor spent 19 years in prison for murder. Since his release in 2010, he’s...
View ArticleA Modest Proposal For Saving America’s Cities
“I could clone myself—or we could learn how to do a better job of sharing.” New York City dwellers love to proclaim that we live in “the greatest city in the world!” But is that really true? There’s no...
View ArticleWhy Using Facebook, Google, And Twitter To Log Into Apps Is A Problem
What we lose by giving the social media giants the keys to our mobile, social lives. When my Facebook account was hacked in March, I didn’t panic. I changed my passwords, and I enabled two-step...
View ArticleA Radical Proposal For Putting People In Charge Of Their Data
What if we got to decide when companies could access our personal information? I just spoke with Yves-Alexandre de Montjoye, a senior PhD student in computational privacy at the MIT Media Lab, and...
View ArticleDo Not Fear The Robot Apocalypse
Elon Musk, Stephen Hawking, and others are concerned about the dangers of artificial intelligence. Maybe they shouldn’t be. The fears of science fiction—robots subjugating humanity, cities destroyed by...
View ArticleThis is what happens when a Gig Economy devotee goes full time
When the poster child for Generation Flux gets a full-time job, he realizes that maybe stability isn’t the enemy. “What do you do?” It’s a loaded question even in the best of circumstances. But when...
View ArticleFighting Words
Information does not want to be free the same way that I “want” doughnuts, so let’s stop thinking that it does. I recently got into a fight on the Internet. (Yes, I know, you’re scandalized.) I was on...
View ArticleDead Unicorns? A Burst Bubble? How I’d Fix It: Take My Money, Please
This one bit of advice can fix everything. Business leaders of the future and future funders of those leaders, I have one request: Please take my money.Read Full Story
View ArticleThe Human Shield Against Technology
As our columnist, Baratunde Thurston, returns to the comedic news mines, he leaves us with insights about managing technology in our lives. When I started writing this column in 2012, I worked for The...
View ArticleDesign Begins At Home
You can redesign your surroundings, but Better living starts with self-discovery In the beginning, I didn’t have a choice. I lived in the home provided by my mother. There was beautiful revolutionary...
View ArticleDesign Begins At Home
You can redesign your surroundings, but Better living starts with self-discovery In the beginning, I didn’t have a choice. I lived in the home provided by my mother. There was beautiful revolutionary...
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