Globalization is what lets us order a sweater from Vietnam, a toaster from Germany, and a sense of existential dread from everywhere at once. Thanks to our interconnected world, we now enjoy the privilege of owning products from every corner[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Happy New Year, everyone! As we start another year, I want to discuss smart home technology. The promise of smart home technology was simple: appliances that anticipate our needs, streamline our lives, and generally behave like helpful robot butlers. The reality?[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Happy Halloween, everyone. There’s something deeply unsettling about the way humans transform when faced with a CAPTCHA. One second, we’re functioning members of society—the next, we’re hunched over our screens, eyes glazed over, robotically clicking traffic lights and crosswalks like[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Steam Summer Sale is a magical time of year when your bank account weeps, your hard drive screams for mercy, and your common sense takes a hard vacation. You log on just to browse, like some kind of innocent[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Welcome to the Walmart of the tomorrow, where shopping has been optimized into a surreal, frictionless nightmare of convenience. Gone are the days of wandering aisles like a confused peasant—now, every inch of this retail utopia has been engineered to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Nothing makes you question your life choices quite like reading a data breach report and realizing some random company has been hoarding your personal information like a digital dragon sitting on a pile of gold—except instead of gold, it’s your[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Dating before Tinder required actual effort – dressing up, going outside, and mustering the courage to talk to strangers like some kind of medieval peasant. Online dating changed things (I met my wife on eHarmony), but Tinder was the real[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
We’ve reached a bizarre crossroads where your Alexa probably knows your partner’s birthday before you do, and your Google search history has more intimate details about your life than your mother. Our digital footprints—every impulsive Amazon purchase, every midnight “why[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Working in cybersecurity, I’ve heard just about every defense there is, but there is something special about the “I was hacked!” claim. Whether it’s a suspicious Facebook post, an accidental email reply-all disaster, or a mysteriously maxed-out credit card, someone,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Parents quickly learn that no amount of brightly colored plastic toys can compete with the siren song of mundane objects – especially anything with moving parts. While adults see a grocery store conveyor belt as a simple mechanism for transporting[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…