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December 1, 2015
Navneet Alang
Welcome to the App Graveyard
This is the way platforms end: Not with a bang, but a whimper.
November 30, 2015
Peter Moskowitz
The App Around the Corner
Jane Jacobs fought Robert Moses for the heart of the Village, but local businesses have suffered far more from the rise of the app economy.
November 30, 2015
Gwyneth Kelly
How to Invent Our Way Out of Climate Change
The problem won't be resolved by political agreements alone.
November 20, 2015
Navneet Alang
Don’t Delete Your Digital Past
What happens when we erase our online lives?
November 13, 2015
Theodore Ross
Would you pay to have a tech company break up with your boyfriend via text?
November 4, 2015
MGMT. design
Clean Clicks vs. Dirty Data
What would it take to build an environmentally sustainable internet?
November 3, 2015
Elizabeth Bruenig
Why I Heart the Twitter Heart
The social network's new icon will enlarge our emotional vocabulary
October 29, 2015
Jacob Silverman
China's Troubling New Social Credit System—And Ours
The new system is fiercely ambitious, authoritarian, technologically sophisticated, and disruptive
October 23, 2015
Navneet Alang
Smartphones Have Created a New Kind of Loneliness
The difference between welcome solitude and scrolling through your phone
October 20, 2015
Dustin Kurtz
Why Is Amazon Still Fighting a Critical New York Times Piece?
On Monday, Jay Carney sent a message to shareholders and employees
October 1, 2015
Navneet Alang
140 Characters Are More Than Enough
Allowing longer tweets will grind Twitter to a halt
September 18, 2015
Jacob Silverman
Monetize Your Dissent
An attempt to build a more empathic Facebook beyond the click of a button
September 15, 2015
Navneet Alang
Everyone Deserves a Smartphone
September 3, 2015
Navneet Alang
We'll Never Have a Tech Utopia
August 24, 2015
Navneet Alang
How to Escape the Public Internet
August 13, 2015
Navneet Alang
Soylent Tastes Better Without the Utopian Rhetoric
August 5, 2015
Anna Wiener
The Data-Entry Dystopia
Helen Phillips’s novel evokes the menace of mundane work
August 5, 2015
Navneet Alang
Eat, Pray, Post
How virality is westernizing the entire world
June 23, 2015
Paul Ford
Pax Google
How your friendly neighborhood search engine took over the world
May 21, 2015
Elizabeth Bruenig
Why Won't Twitter Forgive Suey Park?
From trending to torment and back again

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