Alex White

A sweeping, anecdotal account of the great sounds and voices of radio–and how it became a bonding agent for a generation of American youthWhen television became the next big thing in broadcast entertainment, everyone figured video would kill the radio star–and radio, period. But radio came roaring back with a whole new concept. The war was over,... See more

Your favorite band has just announced their nationwide tour. Should you pay to join their fan club and get in on the pre-sale? No, you decide to wait. But the on-sale date arrives, and the site is jammed. You can’t get on—and the concert is sold out in six minutes. What happened? What now?

Inventing the future is the most incredible job I could ever imagine. There is magic and purpose and hope.

Novel infrastructure often enables new software. We refer to each wave by its architecture advance: internet, mobile, cloud, data lake, single-page apps, containers, serverless.At some point, startups tinker enough with the new technology to discover the applications customers value most. Then the infrastructure innovations disappear beneath the... See more

Everyone complains about how short life is, but that perspective is broken. Life is not short. The real issue is that we waste so much of it.Life is long enough for you to achieve your wildest dreams. You’re just so busy wasting it that you get to the end without living much of it.1The most surprising thing is that you wouldn’t let anyone steal... See more

Since 2004, Hypebot has chronicled the new music industry and the trends and technologies that are changing how music is discovered, consumed, marketed and monetized.