The ghosts of Tiananmen Square haunt China’s rulers, who have moved from censorship to mass surveillance to ensure that large public protests never recur.
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Driverless Car Bombs Pose Threat
GPS satellites broadcast passive one-way signals that by themselves can do no harm. But bad actors can use the power of GPS in frightening ways. “Driverless vehicles could easily be perverted into a ghastly weapon—a guided missile making full use…
Death of the Novel?
“There is one question alone that you must ask yourself in order to establish whether the serious novel will still retain cultural primacy and centrality in another 20 years. This is the question: if you accept that by then the…
Books as Ornaments
“By way of decorating a baby shower with the second edition of “Staff Patient Communication” because it is the right shade of pink, we here enter the realm of the truly objectified book, a world that has everything to do…
Bookstore Benefactor
“Our bookstores in America are at risk. Publishing and publishers as we’ve known them are at stake. To some extent the future of American literature is at stake.” –bestselling author James Patterson explaining to Julie Bosman of The New York…
Slushi 2014
“The logo for this Olympics ought to be a stretcher.” –sportswriter Sally Jenkins, writing in the Washington Post about injuries caused by the poor snow conditions at Sochi, a questionable choice of location for the winter games. Find…
Fashion Forward: What Drives Wearable Tech
“Data will not help you if you can’t see it when you need it.” –Bill Wasik’s lead in a Wired Magazine article titled “Why Wearable Tech Will Be as Big as the Smartphone.“ Find this content useful? Share it with…
Power of Persuasion…
“A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special.” –Nelson Mandela (1918-2013) Find this content useful? Share it with your friends!
Perspective
“Ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country.” –John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address, Friday, January 20, 1961 Find this content useful? Share it with your friends!
Pregnant Pause
“If you have got nine women that doesn’t mean you can have a baby in a month.” — Frederick P. Brooks, a computer science professor at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, explaining to a New York Times reporter…