Technology
Diary
Killing time in a Heathrow first-class lounge, I notice how many men adopt an unmistakable ‘first-class lounge’ persona. They stand…
Going global
We can all identify decades in which the world moved forward. Wars are not entirely negative experiences: the social and…
Directions your phone can’t give you
In many ways a satnav is a miraculous device. A network of US military satellites more than 10,000 miles above…
We’re swamped with nonsense gizmos and it’s all Steve Jobs’s fault
I keep being told that the big hot technological gizmo of the moment is a box that sits in the…
No hiding place
Technology has made murderers much easier to catch
Letters
What might have been Sir: Harry Mount points out that Boris Johnson is two years older than David Cameron (Diary,…
Ruling the digital waves
Everyone, we hear these days, must learn to code. Being able to program computers is the only way to be…
Tax me more, but don’t touch my dishwasher
There was a big fuss a year or so ago about a book by a French chap called Piketty about…
The power of painless payment
I am one of those annoying, mildly claustrophobic people who sit at the end of a row in cinemas. There…
Where’s the joy gone?
Britain seems to be suffering from a dearth of lightheartedness
Dear Mary
I have been alone in the country this festive season as my adult children and most of my friends are…
Send in the clones
The super-rich are already bringing beloved dogs and horses back to life. Soon the rest of us will be able to do it too
We let programmers run our lives. So how’s their moral code?
A few years ago, in the week before Christmas when supermarket sales are at their highest, staff at one branch…
Eugenics for your email
You won’t read much about Sir Francis Galton nowadays because, while it’s inarguable that the man was a giant in…
Powder to the people
Fierce competition is forcing drug dealers to adjust their sales methods
Pop psychology
The secrets of bubble-wrap and other delicious little sensations
I second that emoji
Why my generation has fallen for the smiley-face cult
Novel distractions
Procrastination is easier in the age of Google – but less honest
Click and flick
Romance is being killed off by the brutal marketplace of dating apps such as Tinder
Would you put your life in the care of Dr Droid?
There’s something wrong with the relationship between patients and their GPs. I’ve spent much of this winter in my local…
Nerds, spies and terrorists
Freedom of the press still matters when the presses are virtual
Technology without responsibility
We know they can be good citizens when they want to be. So why are the technology giants acting in ways that could endanger us all?
Blackberry fool
To survive as a technophobe in the 21st century, you must depend on the kindness of strangers
The parlour-game approach
A group of retired Somerset farmers were sitting about in the early 1960s, so Ian Mortimer’s story goes, debating which…
March of the robots
Will Self 28 February 2015 9:00 am
Nicholas Carr has a bee in his bonnet, and given his susceptibilities this might well be a cybernetic insect, cunningly…