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“It’s a really welcome addition to the growing field of rodent virtual reality.” So says Northwestern University neurobiologist Daniel Dombeck in commenting on a new study, published yesterday by Science, that compares what goes on in rats’ brains when they … Continue reading →

First: The guys most excited about Google Glass are the same guys who install a gold-toned shower head onto chrome plumbing. Second: Scoble looks particularly appealing when moist. Third: I was starting to get really nervous that Glass might actually … Continue reading →

1. On this earth Last fall, Facebook released its first television advertisement. The ad was titled “The Things That Connect Us.” It was intended, Mark Zuckerberg announced, with characteristic humility, “to express what our place is on this earth.” It opened … Continue reading →

I have a brief review of Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen’s new and surprisingly gloomy book The New Digital Age in the San Francisco Chronicle. Here’s how the review begins: The New Digital Age opens with a Panglossian overture. The … Continue reading →

“The mainframe is the eternal computing platform,” writes Rudolf Winestock in a pithy essay about the circular path of computing’s history, from time-sharing on central mainframes to time-sharing on central clouds. The “PC is dead” storyline has been around for … Continue reading →

Why are these guys smirking? Because they’re the founding members of the Glass Collective, the new “investment syndicate” that Google has organized “to provide seed funding to entrepreneurs in the Glass ecosystem.” Which means that they’re thinking about the prospect of … Continue reading →

The Digital Public Library of America, which I wrote about last year in the MIT Technology Review article “The Library of Utopia,” will be launching later this month. I had the opportunity to discuss the ambitious undertaking in a new … Continue reading →