Editors’ note: This is the first installment in a new series, “Op-Eds From the Future,” in which science fiction authors, futurists, philosophers and scientists write op-eds that they imagine we might read 10, 20 or even 100 years in the future. The challenges they predict are imaginary — for now — but their arguments illuminate the urgent questions of today and prepare us for tomorrow. The opinio
Philip Roth, a longtime candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature, was asked recently in The New York Times if it bothered him to be repeatedly passed over. He replied, “I wonder if I had called ‘Portnoy’s Complaint’ ‘The Orgasm Under Rapacious Capitalism,’ if I would thereby have earned the favor of the Swedish Academy.” It’s a comment worth unpacking. The prize, whose winner will be announced
The highest court in the European Union decided on Tuesday that Google must, in some cases, honor requests from its search engine users to delete links to personal information.CreditCredit...Georges Gobet/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images Europe’s highest court said on Tuesday that people had the right to influence what the world could learn about them through online searches, a ruling that reje
San Francisco's technology industry is booming. As housing costs increase some worry that the city's colorful neighborhoods, like the Mission, are at risk of losing their character.CreditCredit...Jason Henry for The New York Times SAN FRANCISCO — If there was a tipping point, a moment that crystallized the anger building here toward the so-called technorati for driving up housing prices and threat
The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science has sometimes been awarded to economists who disagree profoundly. Notably, in 1974, the Nobel committee gave a joint prize to Gunnar Myrdal, a Social Democrat in Sweden and a proponent of the welfare state, and Friedrich Hayek, a conservative who believed that government should be minimal. This time, the prize given to Eugene Fama and Lars Peter Hansen
The 55 miles from Campbell to San Francisco make for one of the nicest commutes anywhere. The journey mostly zips along the Junipero Serra Freeway, a grand and remarkably empty highway that abuts the east side of the Santa Cruz Mountains. It is one of the best places in Silicon Valley to spot a start-up tycoon speed-testing his Ferrari and one of the worst places for cellphone reception. For Andy
Are you ready for Thomas (Screaming Comes Across the Sky) Pynchon on the subject of Sept. 11, 2001? On the one hand, his poetry of paranoia and his grasp of history’s surrealist passages make a perfect fit. Yet his slippery insouciance, his relentless japery, risk being tonally at odds with the subject. Either way, and despite his sensibility’s entrenchment in ’60s Californian hippiedom, Pynchon i
The National Security Agency is winning its long-running secret war on encryption, using supercomputers, technical trickery, court orders and behind-the-scenes persuasion to undermine the major tools protecting the privacy of everyday communications in the Internet age, according to newly disclosed documents. The agency has circumvented or cracked much of the encryption, or digital scrambling, tha
As its title indicates, Jaron Lanier’s new tech manifesto asks, “Who owns the future?” But for many of those who will be captivated by Mr. Lanier’s daringly original insights, another question comes first: Who is Jaron Lanier? He is a mega-wizard in futurist circles. He is the father of virtual reality in the gaudy, reputation-burnishing way that Michael Jackson was the king of pop. Mr. Lanier wou
At the bustling public library in Arlington Heights, Ill., requests by three patrons to place any title on hold prompt a savvy computer tracking system to order an additional copy of the coveted item. That policy was intended to eliminate the frustration of long waits to check out best sellers and other popular books. But it has had some unintended consequences, too: the library’s shelves are now
University students took part in the Mynabi Job Expo, a job fair hosted by Minichi Communications in Tokyo in January.Credit...Tomohiro Ohsumi/Bloomberg News TOKYO � Kenichi Horie was a promising auto engineer, exactly the sort of youthful talent Japan needs to maintain its edge over hungry Korean and Chinese rivals. As a worker in his early 30s at a major carmaker, Mr. Horie won praise for his de
Aisha, an 18-year-old Afghan who was disfigured as punishment for fleeing an arranged marriage, left Afghanistan for the United States to undergo a series of surgeries.Credit...Eros Hoagland for The New York Times KABUL, Afghanistan � She cannot read or write and had never heard of Time magazine until a visitor brought her a copy of this week’s issue, the one with the cover picture of her face, th
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