Entries from Michael Erard - Archives tagged with 'Technology'
The G Word, Design Observer, Oct. 29, 2006
Ten years from now, jokey newspaper articles about corporate follies will mention why the Chevy Nova didn't sell in Latin America, the hilarity that ensued when company names (e.g., Pen Island) became URLs, and how Google waded into the mighty...
The Geek Guide to Kosher Machines, Wired, Nov. 2004
Jonah Ottensoser leans over the white stovetop to tweak its settings, giving me a full view of the black yarmulke on his head. But he's not about to bake a cake. Ottensoser, a large genial man with a gray beard,...
In These Games, the Points are All Political, New York Times, July 1, 2004
BY day, Jeremy Kenney, 33, fixes Web sites and databases for the Republican National Committee. By night, on weekends and in his spare time he dabbles in an emerging form of political marketing: the online game. Part advertisement, part journalism,...
Let Down By Academia, Game Pioneer Changed Paths, New York Times, May 6, 2004
MARY ANN BUCKLES heard from a friend in her amateur choir that her 20-year-old dissertation on a video game was now considered a classic. ''I thought, classic dissertation?'' Ms. Buckles recalled. ''They hated my dissertation.'' The friend was referring to...
For Technology, No Small World After All, New York Times, May 6, 2004
OVER the last two years, Genevieve Bell, an anthropologist employed by Intel Research, has visited 100 households in 19 cities in seven countries in Asia and the Pacific to study how people use technology. Twenty gigabytes of digital photos later...
The Ivy Covered Console, New York Times, February 26, 2004
SOME day Dexter Palmer might be a professor of 20th-century American video games, editing The Annals of Computer Game Research with his good friend and colleague Roger Bellin, who by then might hold the Grand Theft Auto Endowed Chair at...
Is Knowledge Power? Austin Chronicle, Sept. 14, 2001
Austin-based Stratfor Attempts to Make Smart Money on Global Intelligence On November 22, 1999, an Austin company called Stratfor sent a bold e-mail to 15,000 recipients around the globe. Its subject line: "Philippine President's Days Are Numbered." In the brisk...
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