From TNR, a review of What Technology Wants by Kevin Kelly (and a response). Current computer graphics are fairly well known and understood, but how did we get here? The evolution of computer graphics is intertwined with textual display, and it is difficult to consider the two separately. How to beat technology addiction: Has your BlackBerry taken over your life, or your iPhone? Academics are trying to find ways to help. An interview with Douglas Rushkoff, author of Program or Be Programmed: Ten Commands for a Digital Age. Hearing is believing: How new media technologies and initiatives are breaking the sound barrier. From library records to iTunes: Where are we leaving traces of ourselves for the future to find? The most meme-worthy manifestation of near-nostalgia is not the pop-up book, nor a camera app, it’s not even the mixtape; it is, of course, the animated gif. A look at 10 inventions that changed your world. Liberation by software: Power has long been able to control the media, but the free software movement enables a radically democratic future. Battle of the Tech Titans: Amazon, Google, and Microsoft are going up against traditional infrastructure makers like IBM and HP as businesses move their most important work to cloud computing, profoundly changing how companies buy computer technology. An interview with Edward Tenner, author of Why Things Bite Back: Technology and the Revenge of Unintended Consequences and Our Own Devices. A look at how the first cable was laid across the Atlantic.
