The Kindle is a technological step back, an attempt to lock readers into a pre-Internet, centralized, heavily mediated economic model for access to texts.
Advances in physics are making possible radically new kinds of computers. An interview with Cecilia López, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Eternal vigilance just got a little easier: An interview with Donny Shaw from OpenCongress, a website that allows citizens to easily analyze and discuss the activities of the United States Congress.
Can new forests harm the environment? An interview with Sean T. Berthrong of Duke University, one of the authors of a paper about the negative effects on the soil of planting new forests.
If the press no longer has the monopoly on acting as a channel to disseminate messages their originators want to be known, it still has the other killer product: the things that are either secrets or just something nobody has thought of yet.
