Are We Having Too Much Fun?

In 1985, Neil Postman observed an America imprisoned by its own need for amusement. He was, it turns out, extremely prescient.

The Story of Junk Mail.

Junk mail is one of those annoying problems that everyone shares. Even worse, it has a huge environmental impact. But there's hope! How we've helped millions of people stop junk mail for good.

I 💙 Cockta!

Sci-Fi, Thriller, Rom-Coms – sie gibt es oft mit akustischer Beschreibung. Dass die Audiodeskription eine eigene Kunstform ist, beachten nur wenige.

Seit ihrer frühen Kindheit hat Barbara Fickert eine Sehkraft von sieben Prozent. Anfang der 90er werden ihre Augen langsam schlechter. Hell und dunkel erkennt sie noch, das Gesichtsfeld wird kleiner, ihre Lupengläser helfen nicht mehr. Und im Kino kann sie auf der Leinwand immer weniger erkennen. „Seither hat sich aber viel getan“, erklärt sie und meint damit auch Audiodeskriptionen – akustische Kommentare für TV- und Kinofilme, die in Dialogpausen das Geschehen beschreiben

The future of the open internet — and our way of life — is in your hands.

Relevant: Blockchain Technology Has The Power to Let Us Build An Entirely New Internet.

The Love and Terror of Nick Cave.

Unspeakable tragedy and grief had their way with Nick Cave, and his music had to change yet again.

Video: James Turrell’s singular quest to transform a crater into a natural-light observatory.

Why do your musical tastes get frozen over in your twenties?

One grim day (when youth is over) you find that new music gets on your nerves. But why do our musical tastes freeze over?

The AI Cargo Cult.

Hyper-intelligent algorithms are not going to take over the world for these five reasons.

Hey, Computer Scientists! Stop Hating on the Humanities.

It’s possible that listening to non-computer scientists will slow the Silicon Valley machine: Diverse worldviews can produce argument. But slowing down in places where reasonable people can disagree is a good thing. In an era where even elections are won and lost on digital battlefields, tech companies need to move less fast and break fewer things.