I was flipping through an old issue of Wired magazine recently—October 2011—and one article immediately caught my eye: Inside Google+ After waves of failure and false starts, the search giant
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As Apple celebrates its 50th anniversary, I’ve been thinking less about Apple itself and more about another company. NeXT. That’s probably not where most people would expect an Apple anniversary
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When most people think about NASA’s plans to return astronauts to the Moon, they think about rockets. That’s understandable. Rockets are dramatic. When they fail, everyone notices. A launch explosion
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One of the reasons I keep coming back to science fiction is that it gives writers a way to put ordinary human beings in impossible situations. Not merely dangerous situations—impossible
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Every one of my novels begins with a question. Not a plot. Not a character. A question. The question that eventually became The Quantum Mirror wasn’t about quantum technology or
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As a novelist, I’m naturally interested in stories. Not just the stories we read, watch, or write, but the stories we tell ourselves. Every person you’ve ever met is carrying
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Europe has delivered another major ruling against a large American technology company. Ordinarily, that wouldn’t be particularly surprising. Over the last decade, European regulators have repeatedly targeted U.S. tech firms
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Google Search used to be a deal. Not a perfect deal. Not always a fair deal. But a deal. Websites created content. Google indexed that content. Users searched Google, found
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With about a month remaining before launch, some of the first professional reviews for The Quantum Mirror have started coming in. I’m incredibly encouraged by the response so far. Building
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Google has always been an engineering powerhouse. Search, Maps, Gmail, Android, Chrome, YouTube infrastructure, TensorFlow, DeepMind—the company has shaped the modern internet and helped define the AI era. Marketing, however,
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