Posts tagged with Technology
Obsessing over Apple Watch Bands
What is it about Apple products that have people discussing the most mundane details? How much discussion do watch bands – though admittedly expensive – really warrant? The question is at best rhetorical. Apple is an absolute machine when it comes to…
Job Posting “Deliberately Implausible”
There was a study done a few years ago by Microsoft that showed that those infamous Nigerian scam emails were written with terrible English grammar for a reason; it was an easy way way to implicitly filter for the gullible…
Accounting for Autonomous Failure
This tweet came across my timeline today on what an extremely automated road network could look like, with autonomous cars self-navigating through busy intersection: Looks impressive to the naked eye, doesn’t it? Square colleague and fellow Quora Top Writer…
The Dying Web
The web is dying? Of course it's dying. The author of this opinion piece isn't the first to point out that it seems like mobile apps are taking up a ton of time and attention away…
The Many Options in Storing and Enjoying Photos
Smartphones have made photos impulsive. What used to be an activity that required careful curation of moments has been made so convenient that our current problem is finding ways to store and sync our albums. Whether the value of each…
Solving Human vs. Natural Problems
Sam Altman wrote a short post which questions a premise: Why aren't today's startups more innovative? He notes that society has benefited from the consumer-centric technological focus in the last decade; starting with the smartphone and…
