The rich, diverse, free web that I loved — and spent years in an Iranian jail for — is dying. Why is nobody stopping it? By Hossein Derakhshan Illustrations by Tim McDonagh S even months ago , I sat down at the small table in the kitchen of my 1960s apartment, nestled on the top floor of a building…

by Jared M. Spool Editor's note: Thanks to Marco Dini, you can read this article in Italian ; thanks to Yannick Primel, you can read this article in French ; thanks to Uwe Keim, you can read this article in German ; and thanks to Timur, you can read this article in Spanish. [While Luke Wroblewski…

When the weather is bad I take a bus to work. I’m forever grateful to the person at the bus stop who informed me that you can text New York’s MTA service to find out exactly where the bus is and when it’s going to arrive. Sure, an app that put the bus on a map would be more rich in information, but…

James Watt and Martin Dickie, founders of BrewDog, which has published its recipes for free.Photograph: Alan Richardson for the Guardian F or me, the beer revolution began early. It was the late 1990s – at a beachside eaterie in Santa Cruz, a gaggle of hacks specialising in the Unix operating system…

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On one otherwise unremarkable day in May 2013, August de los Reyes fell out of bed and hurt his back. Forty-two years old at the time, he was just six months into his dream job at Microsoft: running design for Xbox and righting a franchise that was drifting due to mission creep. At first, de los…

As you’re reading this blog post silently to yourself, do you hear an inner voice speaking the words in your head? A new paper published in Psychosis suggests that most people do hear an internal voice when they’re reading. But as this is one of the first ever investigations into the question, and…

Socrates, considered as one of the founders of Western philosophy, was once named the wisest man on earth by the Oracle of Delphi. When Socrates heard that the oracle had made such a comment, he believed that the statement was wrong. Socrates said: “I know one thing: that I know nothing.” How can…

"Dear James, My name is Andrea and I'm a 17 year old from Brazil. I'm in the last school year of high school, therefore in the cusp of going into college. This is the year in wich we are asked to choose our majors. I, as a student, do not have any particular academic goals in mind except for this…

This is a non-commercial attempt from http://www.sanctuaryasia.com/ and https://www.facebook.com/sanctuaryasi..., to highlight the fact that world leaders, irresponsible corporates and mindless 'consumers' are combining to destroy life on earth. It is dedicated to all who died fighting for the…

Corbis Geldscheine (Symbolbild): Bezahlen ohne Spuren Das Verbot von Bargeldzahlungen über 5000 Euro könnte nur der erste Schritt sein. Schließlich bietet die Abschaffung physischer Zahlungsmittel fantastische neue Überwachungsmöglichkeiten. Kolumne Die Bundesregierung möchte das Geld abschaffen,…

This post originally appeared at LinkedIn . Follow the author here . As co-founder of Hotwire.com and CEO of Zillow for the last seven years, 39-year-old Spencer Rascoff fits most people’s definition of success. As a father of three young children, Spencer is a busy guy at home and at work. What’s…

Laura Poitras has a talent for disappearing. In her early documentaries like My Country, My Country and The Oath , her camera seems to float invisibly in rooms where subjects carry on intimate conversations as if they’re not being observed. Even in Citizenfour , the Oscar-winning film that tracks…

Der Kapitän tritt auf als Spaßbefehl. Anders ist die Micky Maus in ihrem zeltgroßen Schiffsführerkostüm nicht zu deuten. Gespielt von einem Animateur, steht sie seit einer Stunde vor dem Kreuzfahrtschiff Disney Dream und winkt und winkt und winkt. Die ausrückende Touristenschar will einfach kein…

Irishman Mark Boyle tried to live life with no income, no bank balance and no spending. Here’s how he finds it. If someone told me seven years ago, in my final year of a business and economics degree, that I’d now be living without money, I’d have probably choked on my microwaved ready meal. The…

A long time ago, a girl I was dating, asked me a question. The question was so bizarre I had to stop everything to digest it. She asked me when I would start living according to my status. I was confused. Status? What status? I have a status? What do you mean? She continued. Well you make decent…

Chess is the classic game of competitive strategy. It can also teach you a lot about life, right? Actually, if you want a game that symbolizes real life, you should probably look to Tetris. As writer and former competitive chess player Tor Bair points out, many of us view life a lot like chess. You…

Credit: Gilles Lambert N early a year ago today, I wrote a post inventorying the forebears to what I believe has become the dominant trend of consumer computing apps in 2016, a trend that I dubbed Conversational Commerce and have tracked with the hashtag #ConvComm . This trend best came to life in…

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I used to think of myself as a fairly cosmopolitan sort of person, but my bookshelves told a different story. Apart from a few Indian novels and the odd Australian and South African book, my literature collection consisted of British and American titles. Worse still, I hardly ever tackled anything…

Bots are here, they’re learning — and in 2016, they might eat the web The first bot I ever befriended went by the name of GooglyMinotaur. The Minotaur appeared in 2001 to promote Amnesiac, the latest album from Radiohead, which was and still is my favorite band. I happily chatted with the Minotaur…

The city at night ... a place for ‘transgression, fantasy and experimentation’.Photograph: Bradley L Garrett I n the soggy sodium-lit hours of a Sunday night in 2013, I met with urban explorers in Vauxhall, London, to sneak into The Tower at One St George Wharf, the tallest residential building in…

This is the last part of a four-part series on Elon Musk’s companies. For an explanation of why this series is happening and how Musk is involved, 11 ← also click these Three quick notes: 1) PDF and ebook options: We made a fancy PDF of this post for printing and offline viewing (see a preview here…

Read in: 日本語 | Polski | Italiano | Español | Македонски Tokyo, holy excrements from small undefined creatures! We’re there. First place we had on our list was Nakagin Tower. Spending two whole days there, we finally learned the dread and discomfort of living in a capsule hotel. It was wonderful,…

This article originally appeared on Jason’s blog . This article could stop there, but I’d like to give you a few more parameters and share a few 30-day challenge ideas you can do if you don’t have any ideas of your own. *If you don’t need to read any further, but you want to share your 30-day…

‘Innovation’ is currently a buzzword in journalism, as probably it should be. Head to any conference on journalism and you can bet your life savings on there being a panel on innovation. In many newsrooms you’ll even now find journalists with innovation in their title, I’ve previously been one of…

Natürlich blieb er nicht auf seinem Hintern sitzen. Raus aus dem Stuhl, runter mit den Kopfhörern, raus aus dem Kontrollzentrum und auf die Holzterrasse. Da stieg sie in den Morgenhimmel: seine Rakete. Über der Wüste von Texas, seiner Ranch, dem Sitz seiner Raketenfirma Blue Origin, die er lange vor…

I had no right, really, to set off to try to cycle round the world. I wasn’t an expert cyclist. I wasn’t a seasoned explorer. I wasn’t rich, or wise, or brave. For all those reasons I found beginning, committing, pedalling away from my front door an extremely daunting and frightening experience. The…

In the winter of 2013, something unusual happened. Y Combinator backed its first nonprofit, accepting Watsi into its batch and sending the message that nonprofit organizations could operate like startups, and that tech companies could learn a lot from the social sector too. Suddenly, that leap of…

My grandparents, who were born and raised in the Soviet Union, had a very simple idea of success. They wanted to find one job, and do it for the rest of their lives. For them, this was ideal because it allowed them to stay firmly inside their comfort zones. They wanted life to be uncomplicated and…

As a seafood restaurateur and founder of Sawyer Culinary Adventures, Louie Sawyer sought out exotic tastes for his intrepid Western clientele. During a scouting trip to Hong Kong in 2013, he and five associates dropped by a major shark fin processing facility, run by a short, fast-talking kingpin…

All my life I have found peace in solitude. Many of my best ideas have come together while working alone as a designer. Those “Ah ha!” moments seem to take place more often and because of this, I’m happy to be an introvert. While this post supports introverts, I certainly don’t dislike extroverts. I…