One of the most striking discoveries from last month’s interview with Edward Snowden was how unremarkable he seemed. Blondish, pale, disarming—neither traitor nor hero—he turned out to be just an ordinary man with an extraordinary story to tell. The systems analyst that inspired a thousand conspiracy theories was reduced to the IT guy he actually…
In a charming new spot introducing the Nexus 7 tablet, Google shows what’s right—and wrong—with search as we know it. The commercial features a tween confronted with a public speaking assignment and a bad case of “glossophobia” who turns to his tablet for instruction and inspiration. He finds “The King’s Speech” and Colin Firth, FDR’s…
NSA, meet Damien Hirst. Damien, meet the NSA. You have much in common–a lot of data (dots) that add up to (perhaps) not much. One could argue they are both making much ado about nothing (yet one is profiting handsomely) and need to “regain the trust of the marketplace.” Clearly, a case of life imitating art.…