Topic
Culture & technology
Observations on cultural habits, technology and the lives arranged around them.
What if the Big Bang happened today?
There would be a livestream, a hashtag, premium content, an auto-renewing subscription — and, naturally, millions of people explaining to physicists what had really happened.
Over morning coffee, Henry, Margaret and John take on the universe, modern certainty and the strange confidence of people who know very little.
Brutus, meanwhile, has other priorities.
Notes on the Modern Methodology of Doing Nothing
What if rest itself has become another task to perform correctly?
A quiet satire about schedules, sleep scores, mindful productivity — and the strange modern habit of measuring even the moments when nothing is supposed to happen.
September 4, 1998 — Google is born, and humanity gains a tool for finding the world, while the world quietly gains a tool for finding us
Google began with a simple promise: help us find the world.
It worked remarkably well.
Then, search by search, the system learned what we wanted, where we went, what held our attention — and eventually what might interest us before we had thought to ask.
The strange part is not that Google became very good at finding things.
It is that, somewhere along the way, "it became very good at finding us too."
