The future and what to do about it.

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• Tag, You're It Embracing the Internet might salvage the SEC chairman's legacy.
  Chadwick Matlin June 27, 2008
  
• Victoria's Circuit Harnessing the untapped power of breast motion.
  Adrienne So June 23, 2008
  
• Speak English, Stupid Computer! Finally, a search engine that understands you. But don't ditch Google yet.
  Chris Wilson June 19, 2008
  
• Does Google Hate America? The search giant rankles the right by declining to commemorate certain holidays.
  Chris Thompson June 13, 2008
  
• iSurrender Apple's new iPhone augurs the inevitable return of the Bell telephone monopoly.
  Tim Wu June 10, 2008
  
• YouType The strange allure of making your own fonts.
  Jason Fagone June 6, 2008
  
• Can Wal-Mart Save Local Newspapers? Craigslist, take note: It takes one monolithic villain to beat another.
  Chadwick Matlin June 3, 2008
  
• Is Google Draining or Retaining? Reports of an exodus of talent from the company have been greatly exaggerated.
  Chris Thompson June 2, 2008
  
• Meet Your New Personal Trainer Can Wii Fit get your sorry, lazy ass in shape?
  Seth Stevenson May 30, 2008
  
• The State of the Google First-quarter revenues strong; economic apocalypse averted.
  Chris Wilson April 18, 2008
  
• Cloudy Judgment Web-based applications are all well and good, but there's still no beating the desktop computer.
  Paul Boutin April 3, 2008
  
• Have People Stopped Clicking on Google Ads? Or did a Web-traffic firm get the numbers wrong?
  Chris Wilson March 10, 2008
  
• I'm the Idiot Who Bought an HD-DVD Player A casualty of the format war tells all.
  Josh Levin Feb. 28, 2008
  
• Good Guys Don't Make Billions Web companies discover the perils of putting privacy before profits.
  Reihan Salam Feb. 26, 2008
  
• The Wisdom of the Chaperones Digg, Wikipedia, and the myth of Web 2.0 democracy.
  Chris Wilson Feb. 22, 2008
  
• How To Be a Better Browser Can a new filtering program cure the Web's information overload?
  Paul Boutin Feb. 20, 2008
  
• Get Off of My Cloud Why Microsoft's play for Yahoo! isn't about search.
  Chris Wilson Feb. 1, 2008
  
• In What City Did You Honeymoon? And other monstrously stupid bank security questions.
  Josh Levin Jan. 29, 2008
  
• Pirates of Sundance Forget Sony Classics. Try getting your film picked up by online movie pirates.
  Tim Wu Jan. 28, 2008
  
• The Tao of Screen In search of the distraction-free desktop.
  Jeffrey MacIntyre Jan. 24, 2008