The second edition of our book Understanding the Connected Home is out. Peter Bihr and I fully revised and updated this edition. It’s both broader and deeper and reflects our thinking around connected homes and smart homes, IoT and ethics, and some other related fields.…
In May 2015, the science fiction author Bruce Sterling gave a keynote at ThingsCon, a conference about the internet of things and maker culture that Peter co-organizes in Berlin. In his talk, Bruce introduced a new project he had been working on with his partner…
> [24-Hour Bookclub](24-Hour Bookclub is a reading flashmob organized by Diana Kimball and Max Temkin. Every few months, we pick a book, read it in one day, and talk about it on the internet.) is a reading flashmob organized by Diana Kimball and Max Temkin.…
A nice thing about being on the road is that there’s a lot of time to read. (And to watcha lot of TV series, but that’s another story.) Here are some quick recommendations: ## [The Year of Magical Thinking](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Year_of_Magical_Thinking) by Joan Didion > We are…
FWIW, some thoughts from the latest batch of reading: * A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick. * Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn * NW: A Novel by Zadie Smith * The Teleportation Accident by Ned Beauman ### A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick…