The future and what to do about it.

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• The Death of the Disc Why HD-DVD and Blu-ray are dead on arrival.
  Sean Cooper Nov. 16, 2006
  
• A Video History of YouTube From lip-sync videos to $1.65 billion in 14 months.
  Paul Boutin Oct. 18, 2006
  
• Will Apple Change Television Forever? Not now. Maybe never.
  Paul Boutin Sept. 13, 2006
  
• The Best Computer Upgrade Ever Forget about a faster processor. Splurge on a bigger screen.
  Paul Boutin Sept. 7, 2006
  
• An iPod for TV How Apple could make it work.
  Steven Johnson Aug. 22, 2006
  
• You Are What You Search AOL's data leak reveals the seven ways people search the Web.
  Paul Boutin Aug. 11, 2006
  
• The Myth of the Living-Room PC Why you don't have an Apple iTV.
  Paul Boutin Aug. 7, 2006
  
• How To Download a DVD New Web services let you log in and burn one yourself.
  Séan Captain Aug. 7, 2006
  
• Slate's Long Tail Does Chris Anderson's theory apply to online magazines?
  Julia Turner July 25, 2006
  
• The Ultimate Crossword Smackdown Who writes better puzzles, humans or computers?
  Matt Gaffney July 12, 2006
  
• Where's My Google PC? It's coming. It'll be great. You'll hate it.
  Paul Boutin July 3, 2006
  
• The Future of Futurism Down with the techno-utopians! Up with the techno-realists!
  Reihan Salam June 29, 2006
  
• Mom, Do I Have To Fix Your Wi-Fi Again? A painless way to do tech support for your parents.
  Paul Boutin June 15, 2006
  
• Forget YouTube Your laptop will never replace your TV.
  Séan Captain May 8, 2006
  
• Why You Should Care About Network Neutrality The future of the Internet depends on it!
  Tim Wu May 1, 2006
  
• A Grand Unified Theory of YouTube and MySpace Point-and-click sites that don't tell you what to do.
  Paul Boutin April 28, 2006
  
• Dell's Quest for Cool Will Alienware make the tech world's dullards hip?
  Séan Captain April 11, 2006
  
• Switch Different I don't want Windows on a Mac. I want OS X on a PC.
  Paul Boutin April 7, 2006
  
• The Federal Bureau of Luddites Why there are still FBI agents who don't have e-mail addresses.
  Noah Shachtman April 4, 2006
  
• Search Engine Diplomacy How tech companies should do business in China.
  Adam L. Penenberg Jan. 31, 2006
  
• Google vs. DoJ Why the subpoena fight is all about public relations.
  Adam L. Penenberg Jan. 25, 2006
  
• Internet Freeloaders Should Google have to pay for the bandwidth it consumes?
  Adam L. Penenberg Jan. 17, 2006
  
• Microsoft vs. Computer Security Why the software giant still can't get it right.
  Adam L. Penenberg Jan. 9, 2006