Michelle Obama teams up with Walmart to fight obesity and bring down the cost of healthy food. But the problems of processed food emerged from yesterday's answers to questions of purity, safety, and health; will the future be any different? The latest in our series on the science and technology of food, co-produced with GOOD.
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Happiness: Feature or Bug?
The bicycle rider always wants a car, Kevin Kelly reminds us in What Technology Wants. But the car won't make him happier�and if what technology wants is autonomy, it may be advised against the pursuit of happiness.
Read More »Stuxnet and the Uncertain Future of the Internet of Things
The Sunday New York Times' thrilling coverage of the uncovering of the Stuxnet worm prompts questions that complicate images of the coming Internet of Things.
Read More »Embedding Ubiquitously: A Lightbulb That’s Also a Computer
An Android-powered projector-in-a-lightbulb inspires images of a world in which every gadget wants a heart�or at least a brain.
Read More »Paleobibliophilic Bookservative Gutenbourgeois
Traditional media mavens don't like the messy, loosely-joined conversation that is the Web and the dynamics of the new public sphere. Trouble is, they're also the dynamics of the old public sphere.
Read More »Of the solstice and merry disenchantment
In Boston, clouds and swirling snow deprived us of the sight of a blood-red lunar eclipse on the eve of solstice. The two phenomena have nothing to do with one another astronomically; but as a member of a species drawn to pattern like moths to lamplight, I felt the urge to seek an open patch in the clouds, even at three o'clock in the morning�to no avail.
Read More »Augment your tempo with the slow down app
By slowing down your music, this app helps you keep below the speed limit. Whether it makes driving safer or not, it's a reminder that augmented reality is about more than images.
Read More »Lightsicle
Renowned motorcycle builders create a real-life version of the Tron light cycle. It's sleek, it's masterfully built�and it's a pale reflection of the preternatural awesomeness of the 1982 movie's original.
Read More »What we don�t get about Wikileaks
The story is, it's not about the stories.
Read More »Peer-to-peer goes off the grid
Artist and technologist Aram Bartholl is mortaring USB drives into brick walls and curbstones throughout New York City and inviting people to use them to share files. His "Dead Drops" project offers a glimpse of a utopian, DIY darknet in RL.
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