Atlantic, The
Hollywood Is Facing an Existential Crisis (Atlantic, The)
Submitted by benton on Wed, 03/25/2020 - 09:47Downdetector is a simple, ugly utility, which becomes a weird life raft for displaced communities when their websites crash (Atlantic, The)
Submitted by benton on Thu, 02/27/2020 - 06:18America’s Hopelessly Anemic Response to One of the Largest Personal-Data Breaches Ever (Atlantic, The)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Thu, 02/13/2020 - 16:57Hillary Clinton: Mark Zuckerberg Has ‘Authoritarian’ Views on Misinformation (Atlantic, The)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Sun, 01/26/2020 - 16:45Smartphones Have Changed the Way We Write History (Atlantic, The)
Submitted by benton on Thu, 01/23/2020 - 12:05Silicon Valley Abandons the Start-Up Culture That Made It the Envy of the World (Atlantic, The)
Submitted by benton on Thu, 01/16/2020 - 06:36The Twitter Electorate Isn’t the Real Electorate: Social media is distorting our sense of mainstream opinion (Atlantic, The)
Submitted by benton on Tue, 01/14/2020 - 10:365G Is Where China and the West Finally Diverge
5G may seem like an unlikely battleground between China and the West. Yet the transition to 5G may mark the point, after decades of Chinese integration into a globalized economy, when Beijing’s interests diverge irreconcilably from those of the United States, the European Union, and their democratic peers. Because of a failure of imagination, Western powers risk capitulating in what has become a critical geopolitical arena.
How the Loss of the Landline Is Changing Family Life
According to the federal government, the majority of American homes now use cellphones exclusively. “We don't even have a landline anymore,” people began to say proudly as the new millennium progressed. But this came with a quieter, secondary loss—the loss of the shared social space of the family landline. Meanwhile, the physical medium of communication has shifted from telephone poles, visually linking individual homes, to the elusive air.