The Electric Typewriter
Great articles and essays by the world's best journalists and writers.by James Gleick
Partway through the millennium, we figured out how to shape and polish glass so as to see far and to see small, and then we extended our sight far beyond the tiny spectrum our unaided eyes could handle…
by James Gleick
The ”smart helpmeets” are on their way: our homes, our offices, our cars and our clothes. They are meant to be aware, not dumb; proactive, not inert. They are meant to be understanding. If that sounds Frankensteinian — well, get over it.
by James Gleick
Most of the biosphere cannot see the infosphere; it is invisible, a parallel universe humming with ghostly inhabitants. But they are not ghosts to us - not anymore. We humans, alone among the earth’s organic creatures, live in both worlds at once.
by James Gleick
No matter how fast a movie goes these days — or a situation comedy, a newscast, a music video or a television commercial — it is not fast enough.
by James Gleick
The spam epidemic has just a few themes and variations: phone cards, cable descramblers, vacation prizes. Easy credit, easy weight loss, free vacations, free Girlz. Inkjet cartridges and black-market Viagra, get-rich-quick schemes and every possible form of pornography.
by James Gleick
When I got to John Simpson and his band of lexicographers in Oxford earlier this fall, they were working on the P’s. Pletzel, plish, pod person, point-and-shoot, polyamorous…
