A 25-Year-Old Bet Comes Due: Has Tech Destroyed Society?
In 1995, a WIRED cofounder challenged a Luddite-loving doomsayer to a prescient wager on tech and civilization’s fate. Now their judge weighs in. https://bit.ly/3rX5hdR
With its fall detection feature, heart rate notifications, exercise tracking or just the ability to make a call from your wrist, the Apple Watch has made a mark in each one of these stories. https://cnet.co/2yIJKOZ
The wagon—and the wagon wheel—could not have been put together in stages. Either it works, or it doesn’t. And it enabled humans to spread rapidly into huge parts of the world. https://bit.ly/2SEhyUI
Tracking the spread of infectious diseases like COVID-19 is more complex than following numbers. The way we talk about it matters too. https://cnet.co/35a7Q1b
