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IN THE EARLY HOURS of a Saturday morning in mid-July, Steven van Wel was finally ready to hit the “on” button. On his desk in his Manhattan office were three devices the size of two graham crackers stacked together, but heavier and covered in sleek white plastic. The day before, all three slabs were…

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Image Credit: Brad Jonas for Pando We are at that point in the “on demand economy” cycle. The very few breakouts-- Airbnb, Lyft and Uber are pretty much it, and Uber dominates the field in users, valuation, and funding-- can raise billions each and are being encouraged to grow as fast as possible.…

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I saw a story on Facebook the other day. Like most stories that get passed around Facebook, it’s probably only 38% true and written by a 16-year-old. But regardless, I found it cool, and at the very least, thought-provoking. It was about a man named Mohammed El-Erian . Mohammed was the CEO of an…

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Letter to the editor Posted on Feb 29 2020 in Letters Hi Kai, I wanted to send a note of thanks for the work you’ve created and shared. I’ve sticky-noted so many things in my Offscreen issues over the years. 🙂 Personally, the last year has been filled with a lot of questions and thinking about life…

L ife is a bitch. Then you die. So while staring at my navel the other day, I decided that that bitch happens in four stages. Here they are. Stage One: Mimicry We are born helpless. We can’t walk, can’t talk, can’t feed ourselves, can’t even do our own damn taxes. As children, the way we’re wired to…

Everyone aspires to have purpose or meaning in their career but how do you actually do that? What practical steps can you take today or this month to make sure you’re not just toiling away at your des

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I think my life is better because of my iPhone. Yours probably is, too. I’m grateful to live in a time when I can see my baby cousins or experience any album ever without getting out of bed. I’m grate

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P eter Thiel is often described in techno-hyphenated words: Techno-philosopher. Techno-libertarian. Techno-utopian. Technology, after all, is how he first made his name and built his billions. Yet his

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Op-Ed Contributor Don’t Rehab La Guardia Airport. Close It. Credit... Walter Gurbo LAST week, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey put off , yet again, deciding between two proposals for a ne

Fast Company: How does Steve Jobs’s legacy live on at Apple? Tim Cook: Steve felt that most people live in a small box. They think they can’t influence or change things a lot. I think he would probably call that a limited life. And more than anybody I’ve ever met, Steve never accepted that. He got…

(Illustration: Susie Cagle) They did everything that Uber and its CEO Travis Kalanick didn't do. Night School aimed to provide late-night transit service between San Francisco and Oakland, supplementing the public bus and train services that provide intermittent, if any, service after midnight. The…

While Twitter struggles to get new users, its revenue side is killing it. Welcome to the not-so-dismal science of Twitternomics. In 2009 Twitter was a 50-person company punching way above its weight i

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Pedro Alvarez I’m sitting at my desk in California, eating a Chipotle lunch while controlling a mega-server located several hundred miles away in Oregon. With a few lines of code, I’m telling the server to pour all of its processing power onto a single file. My goal is to bypass this file’s security…

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The Assistant Economy The Assistant Economy Welcome to the main artery into creative or elite work—highly pressurized, poorly recompensed, sometimes exhilarating, more often menial. From the confluenc

R ESEARCHERS WORKING with the Central Intelligence Agency have conducted a multi-year, sustained effort to break the security of Apple’s iPhones and iPads, according to top-secret documents obtained b

A NOTE FROM THE EDITOR: Last November, we published a story, ‘A Rape on Campus’ [RS 1223], that centered around a University of Virginia student’s horrifying account of her alleged gang rape at a camp

Illustration by Alex Eben Meyer This essay is adapted from a piece originally printed in the March/April 2015 issue of Orion . Request a free trial issue of Orion here . To teach evolution at the Univ

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Stewart Butterfield is everything you don't think of when you hear the words enterprise software: funny, fascinating, philosophical, creative, a little intimidating. Perhaps because he isn't anything like what you'd expect, he's been able to make products that are more fun and addictive than anyone…

Even at nearly nine months pregnant, Rachel Holt was raring to talk to me, speaking at a thousand miles a minute. Holt is one of the highest powered female executives at San Francisco-based Uber, the

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Let me say this much in defense of the embattled fraternities of Dartmouth College: As a pledge during the winter of 2000, I was never forced to wade in a "kiddie pool of vomit, urine, fecal matter, s

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McDonald’s Seeks Its Fast-Food Soul Credit... Illustration by Jeremy Enecio McDonald’s is having an identity crisis. For years, it has lurched from showcasing new items — salads! Egg White Delight McM