Against Summary
The machines will summarize anything now, instantly and adequately. Which is exactly why the summary is the wrong thing to want.
Tag: technology
The Afternoon I Stopped Multitasking
It took a power outage to show me what a single task feels like. Notes on the afternoon the router died and the mind came back.
E-Readers, Ten Years On
I was wrong about the Kindle, twice. A decade-late reckoning with the device I swore I would never own and now own two of.
The Quiet Web
Somewhere under the feeds, the old web is still there: sites made by one person, updated when they have something to say. Field notes from the quiet web.
Review: Playground, by Richard Powers
Powers writes the ocean the way other novelists write childhood. A review of Playground, a novel about coral reefs, computation, and what we drown.
Against the Infinite Scroll
The feed has no last page, and that is the whole design. On endings as a form of respect, and why I want my reading to run out.