Technology
Amazon.com: Terrible Corporate Citizen
I’m a longtime customer of Amazon—everything from books, eBooks, and two Kindles to tennis balls and baseball caps—but I’m looking for an alternative. I’m not unhappy with Amazon’s service, but with its politics. Amazon is waging an aggressive campaign to prevent revenue-starved California from collecting sales taxes from the company’s customers. And that’s only its most recent effort to prevent states from levying sales taxes on online purchases. READ MORE >>
Don't Be Evil
In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives By Steven Levy (Simon & Schuster, 423 pp., $26) The Googlization of Everything (And Why We Should Worry) By Siva Vaidhyanathan (University of California Press, 265 pp., $26.95) I. READ MORE >>
Apple’s Form and Function Meets Location Efficiency
with Louis Liss When it comes to design, there’s no question that Apple knows how to impress. READ MORE >>
Writer's Block
e-Salvation
What Technology Wants By Kevin Kelly (Viking, 406 pp., $27.95) READ MORE >>
In the Margins
Silicon Implant
Connectivity Conundrum
The night I lost my digital virginity, I was sixteen, visiting family in Paris. One evening, my cousin and I decided to go to a movie. Before I could reach for the newspaper listings, he switched on a box the size of a small television that sat on a living room shelf, unnoticed by me until that moment. The screen glowed blue as he typed in a sequence of numbers. Voilà! The desired information appeared in a flash of light that seemed nothing less than magical. READ MORE >>
