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Some of My Best Friends Are Germs

I can tell you the exact date that I began to think of myself in the first-person plural — as a superorganism, that is, rather than a plain old individual human being. It happened on Marc
PUBLISHED: May 15, 2013
LENGTH: 30 minutes (7705 words)

On the exponential curve: inside Singularity University (Wired UK)

Through booms and recessions, wars and peace, from Morse code to 4G, the trend curve, Ray Kurzweil says, has continued uninterrupted3D Agency This article was taken from the May 2013 issue of Wired…
PUBLISHED: May 6, 2013
LENGTH: 14 minutes (3721 words)

Paul Ford’s Interaction: Elegy for the Text Box

In The New World of the Web, Thinking is Doing.We live in the last days of the text box. By which I mean the plain, four-cornered box that appears in your web browser and allows you to enter a line…
PUBLISHED: May 1, 2013
LENGTH: 3 minutes (766 words)

The Hidden World Under Our Feet

HELENA, Mont. THE world’s worrisome decline in biodiversity is well known. Some experts say we are well on our way toward the sixth great extinction and that by 2100 half of all the…
PUBLISHED: May 11, 2013
LENGTH: 4 minutes (1196 words)

Jay McInerney: why Gatsby is so great

The Great Gatsby seems to be enjoying a moment, what with the success of the New York production of Gatz, opening in London (described by America's leading theatre critic Ben Brantley as "The most…
PUBLISHED: June 10, 2012
LENGTH: 7 minutes (1933 words)
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Sherry Turkle: 'We're losing the raw, human part of being with each other'

Bedraggled from a walk in the rain, Sherry Turkle shows up begging for a latte. She's left her wallet in her hotel room. She's exhausted, she says, and could do with a coffee. "You can see it's not…
PUBLISHED: May 5, 2013
LENGTH: 3 minutes (986 words)
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Open university: Joi Ito plans a radical reinvention of MIT's Media Lab (Wired UK)

Chris Crisman This article was taken from the November 2012 issue of Wired magazine. Be the first to read Wired's articles in print before they're posted online, and get your hands on loads of…
PUBLISHED: Nov. 15, 2012
LENGTH: 13 minutes (3315 words)

Social robots: our charismatic friends in an automated future (Wired UK)

Heather Knight of Carnegie Mellon University with her robot friend, DataSpencer Lowell This article was taken from the April 2013 issue of Wired magazine. Be the first to read Wired's articles in…
PUBLISHED: April 2, 2013
LENGTH: 4 minutes (1070 words)

Love and Madness in the Jungle

The Benders in 2002 Photo: Courtesy of the Patton Family John and Ann Bender's haunting Costa Rica fortress.
AUTHOR:Ned Zeman
LENGTH: 33 minutes (8374 words)
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