Think of it as enabling philanthropy: take a minimum of money and aim it at the precise point where it can do the maximum ...

Apps You Need for China. Traveling to China is not like traveling to other places. The heavy-handed government blocks any website or app it doesn’t like or control, so you have ...

Emma Christley is a music writer and personal essayist currently publishing on Substack. Her weekly album review series focuses on albums that she’s not heard, but probably should have by now. When ...

Gar’s Tips & Tools is free. But if you really like what I’m throwing down and want to support it, please consider a paid ...

I am not the first, nor the only one, to believe a superorganism is emerging from the cloak of wires, radio waves, and electronic nodes wrapping the surface of our planet. No one can dispute the scale ...

The Amish have the undeserved reputation of being luddites, of people who refuse to employ new technology. It’s well known the strictest of them don’t use electricity, or automobiles, but rather farm ...

Regina’s daughter, Andra Clarke, worked tirelessly to research and cull through both women’s photographic mementos. As tribute to what Regina called the “best job of my life,” Andra created Ciro’s ...

Ted Kaczynski, the convicted bomber who blew up dozens of technophilic professionals, was right about one thing: technology has its own agenda. The technium is not, as most people think, a series of ...

This is an edited, updated version of an essay I wrote in 2008 when this now popular idea was embryonic and ragged. I recently rewrote it to convey the core ideas, minus out-of-date details. This ...

Don’t go to architecture school; devour this book instead and use it to design buildings and places that really work. This 1,000-page encyclopedia contains two hundred design patterns found in the ...

A work crane at the Clock site in western Texas. There is a Clock ringing deep inside a mountain. It is a huge Clock, hundreds of feet tall, designed to tick for 10,000 years. Every once in a while ...

“If you are interested the big picture of technology, you need to read this book.” — Danny Hillis, designer of The 10,000-year Clock “It isn’t often that a book is so important and well crafted that I ...