Built Together, Billed Separately
To the Editor: Sir — I see by the papers that a concern called Amazon, whose chief business appears to be the delivery of everything to everybody by Thursday, has announced that it will spend more than one billion dollars over five years upon the towns that have the misfortune to host its data centers. It calls the program “Built
The Television Is Watching You Back
I was raised to believe a television was a box you watched. It turns out I had the arrangement backwards. Researchers at UC Davis, University College London, and a university in Madrid sat down and did the plain, unglamorous work of watching what a smart TV sends out over the wire while you watch it. They published their findings at
Who Is for the Children?
Mark Twain gave the first Gilded Age its name, and I suspect he would not be surprised that we are due for a second. Gilt is cheap. It looks like gold from across the room. Chicago is holding an election for its school board on November 3rd. Twenty-one seats. Here is what I found: everyone is for the children. The
A Letter to the Editor
From the desk of Mr. Samuel L. Clemens, lately of the river, now of the republic To the Editor: Sir — I have been dead a good while now, but a man does not have to be alive to recognize a confidence game. What is being run on the American public at present is as fine a piece of flimflam