http://machinemachine.net/stream/feed en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sweetcron therourke@gmail.com http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2011/02/14/110214crat_atlarge_gopnik That the reality of machines can outpace the imagination of magic, and in so short a time, does tend to lend weight to the claim that the technological shifts in communication we’re living with are unprecedented. It isn’t just that we’ve lived one technological revolution among many; it’s that our technological revolution is the big social revolution that we live with. The past twenty years have seen a revolution less in morals, which have remained mostly static, than in means: you could already say “fuck” on HBO back in the eighties; the change has been our ability to tweet or… ]]> Thu, 10 Feb 2011 17:18:48 -0700 http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2011/02/14/110214crat_atlarge_gopnik http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/08/03/090803fa_fact_baker?currentPage=all ordered a Kindle 2 from Amazon. How could I not? There were banner ads for it all over the Web. Whenever I went to the Amazon Web site, I was urged to buy one. “Say Hello to Kindle 2,” it said, in tall letters on the main page. If I looked up a particular writer on Amazon—Mary Higgins Clark, say—and then reached the page for her knuckle-gnawer of a novel “Moonlight Becomes You,” the top line on the page said, “ ‘Moonlight Becomes You’ and over 270,000 other books are available for Amazon Kindle—Amazon’s new wireless reading device. Learn more.”… ]]> Mon, 27 Jul 2009 17:43:00 -0700 http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/08/03/090803fa_fact_baker?currentPage=all