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  • Diary From a Lifetime of Tech Failure

    Diary From a Lifetime of Tech Failure

    On my 32nd birthday, my 22-year-old sister mailed me a first-generation Tamagotchi. Too young to have suffered the Tamagotchi herself, she may have sweetly assumed that I was once the kind of focused, enraptured child from the throwback commercial — one with an innate or even competent grasp of faddish handheld electronics. She would be…


  • Why We Don’t Fully Trust Technology

    We’ve all been there. The presenter is about to begin, but then disaster strikes: the computer technology fails. Perhaps the computer has fallen asleep, the data projector is using the wrong input, or the mouse clicker has run out of juice.