The Scientific American has a coup with its article by Bill Gates on A Robot in Every Home.
I like this sentence which comes near his conclusion:
In fact, as mobile peripheral devices become more and more common, it may be increasingly difficult to say exactly what a robot is. Because the new machines will be so specialized and ubiquitous–and look so little like the two-legged automatons of science fiction–we probably will not even call them robots.
That may … Keep Reading
Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall being funny about oranges. Serious too.
The greenest way to subscribe to this magazine?
Marcel Duchamp still has the power to shock
Henry Lydiate has been contributing to this magazine for 30 years. Not bad?
Unusually, except for its covers, this magazine stays with black & white as a matter of design principle. It seems to work very well as a digital offering without colour. What do you think? Here are one, two and three effective examples.
Wired’s Wild predictions are funny and interesting. But this is one that I really do NOT buy:
Print to Web
A major newspaper gives up printing on paper to publish exclusively online.
No major newspaper is going to do that, certainly not this year. But there is a great deal of gloom in the newsprint world, and to a degree it is creeping over to magazines. Today’s Financial Times has an insightful analysis of the situation — especially with respect … Keep Reading
At the start of 2006 Exact Editions was running some test magazines through our system. They are still there. We had no commercial service at all. That began in February.
As the year turns we have:
32 magazines in the shop
506 issues in your hands if you subscribe to them all.
But we have processed many more issues. 1908 have been through our hands so far (as a ‘whitelabled’ service to publishers, or for test purposes, or … Keep Reading
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