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This applies in the vast majority of cases. Some exceptions seem like pure services. Zapier, for example, is mostly logic that connects others' databases through APIs. But even here, your built-up Zaps are stored in their database and make it less likely you'll switch to IFTTT. Plaid connects financial databases, but the authorizations are stored... See more

“Every age has its signature afflictions. Thus, a bacterial age existed; at the latest, it ended with the discovery of antibiotics. Despite widespread fear of an influenza epidemic, we are not living in a viral age. Thanks to immunological technology, we have already left it behind. From a pathological standpoint, the incipient twenty-first century... See more

The atomic unit of a media enterprise is the creator. It always has been. But, now armed with new mediums and technologies, more and more creators are becoming standalone businesses.

if software is to have soul, it must feel more like the world around it. Which is the biggest clue of all that feeling is what’s missing from today’s software. Because the value of the tools, objects, and artworks that we as humans have surrounded ourselves with for thousands of years goes so far beyond their functionality. In many ways, their... See more

Now Google, Microsoft, Facebook, all mean well. They want to help us. The filters-at-source are there to personalise service to us, to make things simple and convenient for us. The risks that Pariser and Zittrain speak of are, to an extent, unintended consequences of well-meaning design.

Autonomous checkout tech is too early to make a difference for shoppers in the current pandemic, but as business owners upend their businesses to enable social distancing, there are signs the tech might be ready to make life easier during the next pandemic and the period in between.