The Electric Typewriter
Great articles and essays by the world's best journalists and writers.by Venkat Rao
For all you futurists out there who are stuck in a mental rut asking yourself, what’s the next big thing? the next big thing is almost certainly not going to be a thing at all. It’s going to be a material. So the right question is what’s the next new material?
by Venkat Rao
On a 10-point scale where good vs. evil is a 4 in terms of difficulty, I’d rate scarcity versus abundance at 8.5.
by Farhad Manjoo
Apple, Facebook, Google, and Amazon battle for the future of the innovation economy.
by Clive Thompson
Johnathan Goodwin can get 100 mpg out of a Lincoln Continental, cut emissions by 80%, and double the horsepower. Does the car business have the guts to follow him?
by David Foster Wallace
The answer, in a kind of trivalent nutshell, is: (1) emotional stress, (2) physical vanity, (3) a certain queer kind of self-obliterating logic in the microeconomics of consumer high-tech.
by Tom Clynes
“That’s not the stuff you said would kill us if it broke open, is it?”
“I don’t think so,” he said. “Not instantly.”
