The Electric Typewriter
Selected features, articles and essays from the world's best journalists and writers.by Gary Wolf
A band of intellectual brothers is mounting a crusade against belief in God. Are they winning converts, or merely preaching to the choir?
by Gary Wolf
Ryan is the king of a new Yukon gold rush, the biggest since the legendary Klondike stampede a century ago. Behind the stampede is the rising price of gold, and behind that price is fear.
by Joey Anuff and Gary Wolf
Anthony Elgindy, the Mad Max of Wall Street, has seen the revolution: thousands upon thousands flooding into the electronically liberated stock market. “The public is there for one reason and one reason only, they are there to absorb the risk.” And guess who will drive you to maximum absorption?
By Gary Wolf
By the time of his death, Marshall McLuhan had been dismissed by respectable academics. But in light of the digital revolution, McLuhan’s relevance is being recognised again.
by Gary Wolf
The real message of media today is ubiquity. It is no longer something we do, but something we are part of. It is as if we have amputated not our ears or our eyes, but ourselves, and then established a total prosthesis – an automaton – in our place.
by Gary Wolf
Some look at the reconstruction of Berlin and see the heart of a new Europe. Others envision the hottest ticket in urban theater. Then again, maybe what’s really going on here at the border of the 21st century is the creation of a monumental branding event.
by Gary Wolf
Given the chance to observe our behaviors, computers can run simulations, modeling different versions of our path through the world. By tuning these models for top performance, computers will give us rules to live by, telling us when to wake, sleep, learn, and exercise; they will cue us to remember what we’ve read, help us track whom we’ve met, and remind us of our goals.
