The March of Technology: A Series
Ode to the Beginning
The tech industry threatens to grow up.
I first got into technology in the 1990s. I started out by writing Windows games in BASIC and C++, which helped me start building a sense for what goes into making software. Then, everything changed. The web overturned the software world. Many of the most important companies and apps of...
The Coming Supremacy of AR
How augmented reality is far more than a phone on your face.
An annoying thing about the future is that, at first, it sucks. The original iPhone was, to many people, obviously great. Although even the most optimistic iPhone users of 2008 mostly underestimated the impact smartphones would eventually have on work, play, and society, the iPhone was still clearly a product...