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Tracking What Kids Eat At School
The Associated Press ran a fun story this week about a school in Georgia that is using an account debit system with a computerized cash register to let parents know what kids are eating at school. Originally the system was…
Transcendence Reconsidered
The most widely read Technology Review story this year was our February cover story, Do You Want to Live Forever?, a profile of the British theoretical biologist and computer scientist, Aubrey de Grey (pictured). Since I began blogging more…
CIA Conducing Cyber War Games
The CIA is conducting cyber War Games, which doesn’t mean they are now using simulators to simulate ground wars scenarios. Instead, they are putting together an exercise that deals with an attack against our infrastructures here, bringing together private companies…
Bruce Sterling, JCR Licklider, and Mobile Computing
Reuters has a nice piece about the changing digital landscape, as PCs, game consoles and digital devices begin to merge into one giant mediasphere. I’ve spent quite a bit of time debating this issue over the last few years, most…
NYTimes: Parents 'Forced' to Upgrade Kids' Social Technology
The New York Times has, quite possibly, the most ridiculous story about technology and its place in the teenage social hierarchy. The story essentially says that teenagers are increasingly putting pressure on their parents, who are caving into the wanton…
Notes from Appalachia: Stats on Rural Broadband Penetration
Unlike my esteemed boss Jason Pontin, I did not have the opportunity to go to Tahiti (for real or otherwise). Instead, I’m back in southern Ohio, at the tip of northern Appalachia, where I called home for twenty years. It’s…
Last Chance to Join our Experiment in Participatory Journalism
If you follow the TR blog you know that I’ve published a draft of my August feature on “continuous computing” over at our new satellite blog. (Click to: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4.) Traffic at the new…
It's a Load of Sith
Actually, Star Wars III: the Revenge of Sith wasn’t bad at all. I saw it this afternoon, and I was even moved. After the hand-wringingly awful Jar-jar Binks, and the nearly incomprehensible Attack of the Clowns (it may have been…
Hackers Targeting Phishing Sites
Hackers have long gotten a bad rap from people who haven’t had the time (nor inclination, apparently) to differentiate between hackers and crackers. Hacking is an integral part of developing hardware, software, and networks. It’s how bugs are found and…
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What Should I Write About?
In the spirit of the experiment in participatory journalism that Technology Review is conducting at continuous computing , tell me, readers: what should I write my next column about? Bear in mind that I like my column to be loosely…