How AirBnB Threatens Urban Creative Space
The end result of an AirBnB'd neighborhood is not a profitable artist collective; it's an international bedroom community of "post-tourist" upwardly mobile workers.
Reddit and the Online Community Crisis
Abuse is rampant on Reddit. Are invitation-only forums the solution?
Anxiety Games: For When a Little Distraction Is Good—or Even Necessary
There’s a lot of comfort to be found in virtual worlds.
Seamless for Marijuana Isn’t Just a Stoner’s Dream Come True
It’s not just customers who are benefiting from the Silicon Valley-style normalization of the marijuana market.
Want to Invest in Your City? Try the New Kickstarter for Municipal Bonds
By bringing some Silicon Valley-style innovation to a dusty, through increasingly popular, sector, Neighborly hopes to make supporting local infrastructure projects both cool and profitable.
The Hubris of Venture Capital
It’s venture capital firms, not necessarily start-ups, that are lighting money on fire in pursuit of the next unicorn investment.
Algorithms Aren’t Killing Creative Culture
Algorithms are fundamentally uncreative. Every set of crunched numbers, every calculated outcome, needs an equal and perhaps opposite human component to bring it to life.
The Apple Watch’s Distraction Problem
Distraction is a necessary method for dealing with the competing stimuli of everyday life. But only the right kind of distraction, which Apple’s newest product fails to provide.
Europe’s Smartphone Detox
Smartphone penetration in Spain is similar to that in the United States, but nobody over there seems to be talking about addiction to technology. They are talking though—to each other, in person.