Knocking Off the Apple Design Pedestal
It starts, as usual, by having to correct someone being wrong on the internet: Ignores fact that Google search is one of the best products of all time. Iteration is not design Innovator https://t....
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The Difficulty of Approaching Transportation from a Purely Technological Angle
Apple, after laying off and restructuring its secret self-driving car team, is still in the game, albeit sounding more as a partnership with existing car companies. Google spun out its own self-driving car initiative into...
An Era Hostile to Innovation
140 characters instead of flying cars. Peter Thiel quipped this back in 2011, succinctly and pointedly describing the state of technological progress in the 21st century. It’s damning our modern tendencies to seek incremental...
The Race to Define the Most Important Technology in Cars
I’ve been driving my new Volvo XC90 for two months now. It’s an impressive car; Volvo has done a great job cramming this revision of their flagship SUV with great design and technology....
Review: The Inevitable
Wired launched in 1993. It was a magazine and a website which came about just as modern computing had started to make a difference beyond academia and into everyday life: computers were small and cheap...
Review: Little Rice — Smartphones, Xiaomi, and the Chinese Dream
I’ve read my share of books and articles on the current economic and political phenomenon that is China. I’m interested in part because of my own ethnicity and complex relationship with the country,...