Last year, while cleaning out the basement of my childhood home, I discovered a plastic storage bin marked "Calcusoft." Inside were piles of notebooks filled with...The Atlantic From ACM Opinion | August 30, 2013
Seems like everything gets hacked these days. Baby monitors. White House employees' personal email. Toilets.The Atlantic From ACM News | August 19, 2013
"People love Facebook. They really love it," Biz Stone wrote earlier this month. "My mother-in-law looks hypnotized when she decides to put in some Facebook time...The Atlantic From ACM Opinion | August 1, 2013
Let's start at the end point: what you're doing right now. You are pulling information from a network onto a screen, enhancing your embodied experience with a communication...The Atlantic From ACM Opinion | July 10, 2013
It is the rare entrepreneur who hits it truly big twice. Those who do—such as Ev Williams, Ted Turner, and Elon Musk—tend to stay within the original industry that...The Atlantic From ACM Opinion | June 21, 2013
Our government collects a lot of information about us. Tax records, legal records, license records, records of government services received—it's all in databases...The Atlantic From ACM Opinion | May 1, 2013
Type an address into your phone, and up will pop a step-by-step route from where you are to where you want to be. This is, in its way, magic—magic that has, at...The Atlantic From ACM Opinion | April 15, 2013
Bitcoin might be a bubble or it might be THE FUTURE, but there's one thing it's not: a currency. It's a tech stock. The question is whether it's Pets.com or Paypal...The Atlantic From ACM Opinion | April 12, 2013
On a chilly day last spring, a few dozen developers of children’s apps for phones and tablets gathered at an old beach resort in Monterey, California, to show off...The Atlantic From ACM Opinion | March 21, 2013
Like the flap of a butterfly's wings causing a hurricane half a world away, the ripples of unintended consequences from Ron Rosenbaum's "Secrets of the Little Blue...The Atlantic From ACM Opinion | February 21, 2013
On vacation in China earlier this month, I stopped by Shanghai's seven-story downtown "Book City," bustling with activity on a weekday afternoon that, as a publisher...The Atlantic From ACM Opinion | November 28, 2012
Every day and night, beneath the streets of San Francisco, huge wheels turn, pulling cable cars to their far-flung destinations and back again, as if weaving them...The Atlantic From ACM Opinion | November 27, 2012
The question of what happens when machines get to be as intelligent as and even more intelligent than people seems to occupy many science-fiction writers.The Atlantic From ACM Opinion | October 26, 2012
The near-term future of phones is fairly well-established. The iPhone 5 was released Wednesday and its similarity to every Apple phone since 2007 serves as a reminder...The Atlantic From ACM Opinion | September 14, 2012