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If We Measure an Activity, We Enjoy It Less
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The Internet of Things You Don’t Really Need
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Inside Google's Secret Drone-Delivery Program
For two years, the company has been working to build flying robots that can deliver products across a city in a minute or two. An Atlantic exclusive. A zipping comes across the sky. A man named Neil Parfitt is standing in a field on a cattle ranch outside Warwick, Australia. A white vehicle appears above the trees, a tiny plane a bit bigger than a seagull. It glides towards Parfitt, pitches upward
The Internet's Original Sin
Ron Carlson’s short story “What We Wanted To Do” takes the form of an apology from a villager who failed to protect his comrades from marauding Visigoths. It begins: What we wanted to do was spill boiling oil onto the heads of our enemies as they attempted to bang down the gates of our village. But as everyone now knows, we had some problems, primarily technical problems, that prevented us from do
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