April 29, 2021
Backstage at the jam-packed product launch event in Silicon Valley, the CEO walks past a framed copy of Wired Magazine headlined “Our Tech Savior,” with his own mug smiling back at him on the cover. As thousands of smartphone-wielding techies await his every word, fictional big tech executive Mark Bowman asks his device for an update.
“Stock price is up, and your rivals are worried. I hacked into their private e-mails,” answers the Alexa-sounding smartphone voiced by Oscar winner Olivia Colman. He questions her in seeming disbelief: “Wait, their private emails? That’s a dangerous overreach of corporate power!” Then the human CEO and his glass-screened companion laugh together with knowing winks.
To All the Fry s I Loved Before: An Elegy for the Best Electronics Chain in the West
Good-bye, old friend: With the closure of Fry s Electronics, it s the end of an era for PC and tech obsessives. By Chris Stobing
27 Feb 2021, 4:13 a.m.
It s a lazy Saturday morning, and I m sitting in the passenger seat of my dad s restored 1965 Ford Comet on the way from one end of my hometown to the next. Getting onto the freeway, I look to my right to see the familiar One Infinite Loop, with the Apple campus looming at the end of the lane.
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