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A History, a Theory, a Flood
“So ambitious, illuminating and sexily theoretical that it will amount to aspirational reading for many of those who have the mettle to tackle it.”
“Bold and arresting”
2012 Hessell-Tiltman Prize
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The Word
- Bartlett's Updated Creating a new edition of a great book of quotations is an adventure in cultural excavation. How did the editors of Bartlett’s do?
- If Shakespeare Had Been Able to Google Regarding obsessiveness about words.
- The Death of the Book Despair and hope.
Looking Back
- Einstein A profile for the century’s end.
- What the Beep? Our electronic devices were trying to tell us something. But what, and which?
Cyberspace
- "I Agree" What rights do you give away when you blithely click that innocent-looking button?
- Accounting for Taste On-line merchants try to read our minds. If we like One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest, will we like 10,000 Maniacs?
- Spam (1) The Internet’s own Black Plague, as it was in 1996.
- Spam (2) It only got worse.
Microsoft
- Chasing Bugs in the electronic village.
- Microspeak How they talked, and why.
- The Microsoft Monopoly Early (1995) reporting and analysis of the antitrust storm clouds.
Modern Marvels
- A Bug and a Crash Guess what caused the expensive crash of the Ariane 5 in 1996. And what does it say about software design?
- Maintenance Not Included Batteries and other surprises.
- Patently Absurd The disaster in progress that is the United States patent system.
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- The Doctor's Plot You don’t believe people are being abducted by aliens, do you? An example of wacky belief mania.