At 4:17 in the morning, the medical ICU is quiet except for the soft chirp of monitors and the hush… Read more
Category: Technology
What Still Works in America: The Seven Moats Season 3, Article 1: The Frame
There is a woman named Renee who has worked as a unit secretary at a regional hospital for nineteen years…. Read more
The Conductor and The Rise of the One-Person Company
Something has changed in the texture of professional life, though it is difficult to name precisely because the change is… Read more
Your Router, the Supply Chain, and a Growing Concern
There is a small box somewhere in your home that connects everything. Your phone. Your laptop. Your kid’s tablet. Your… Read more
The New Town Square Has a Login Screen
A generation ago, if you wanted to find the cultural center of gravity, you could do worse than stand in… Read more
The Economy Shifted From Ownership to Access and Nobody Announced It
Consider a composite figure who is easy to find in any American city right now: a healthcare administrator, say, 39… Read more
The Next Species of Computing
There is a diagram I drew on whiteboards for twenty years. Three boxes, stacked vertically. Application at the top. System… Read more
The Knowledge We Build Together
There is a certain kind of American story that never quite makes the front page. It has no villain, no… Read more
The New Year’s Resolution Hidden in Our Supply Chains
On a gray Tuesday morning in a former warehouse on the edge of a Midwestern city, a small factory hums… Read more
The Case for Shared Stewardship in Artificial Intelligence
American public life has a habit of turning every emerging technology into a cultural battleground. Railroads were once instruments of… Read more