Are You Just LARPing Your Job?
Working in an active Slack (or Campfire for that matter!) is a productivity nightmare, especially if you don’t hate your coworkers. Anyone who suggests otherwise is either rationalizing or delusional.
April 20, 2015 at 01:28PM
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The Man Who Broke the Music Business
The dawn of online piracy.
April 20, 2015 at 11:16AM
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Why Can’t America Have Great Trains?
Why Amtrak remains a model of mediocrity, and why Washington seems to want it to stay that way even as the country’s infrastructure falls apart.
April 20, 2015 at 10:18AM
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The Machines Are Coming
Low-wage jobs are no longer the only ones at risk.
April 20, 2015 at 09:15AM
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Up Close And Personal With Sir Isaac Newton’s Very Own Telescope
And it’s more than that too — it’s the world’s first reflecting telescope.
April 20, 2015 at 09:04AM
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What links the global Internet? Wires inside tubes no bigger than a garden hose.
With cell phone, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth almost everywhere, it sometime seems like we’ve finally ditched the cumbersome cords that tethering us and our gadgets down to earth. But in reality, we live in a world that’s more wired than ever before — it’s just that those wires are strung along the bottom of the world’s oceans.
April 20, 2015 at 08:16AM
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How workplace chat is changing office culture.
Several people are typing. Who’s working?
April 20, 2015 at 07:15AM
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Welcome To Anti Social Media Week
What does it mean to be happy? How do we become happy? Does happiness even really exist? Looking to science, philosophy, religion, technology, and just about everything else, we’ve found tips, tricks, and hacks that make us happy, or at least happy-ish.
April 20, 2015 at 06:30AM
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Who Doesn’t Want to Live Forever? The Cult of Singularity
While the Fountain of Youth is generally ascribed to the conquistador Juan Ponce de León — located in Florida, perhaps, or the Bahamas, or the Yucatan — the legend itself is far older. The seeking of eternal youth is as old as literature itself: Herodotus wrote of it; Gilgamesh nearly had it until his fateful nap.Truth is, searching for the ability to live forever is probably much older than our texts reveal.
April 20, 2015 at 05:33AM
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50 Years On, Moore’s Law Still Pushes Tech to Double Down
On April 19, 1965, the 36-year-old head of R&D at seminal Silicon Valley firm Fairchild Semiconductor published a prediction in a trade magazine, “Electronics.” The researcher claimed that the number of components — that is, transistors — on a single computer chip would continue to double every year, while the cost per chip would remain constant.
April 20, 2015 at 04:15AM
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