The Best of Technology Writing 2006 Author:Clive Thompson (Editor) Proves that technology writing is a bona fide literary genre. This volume covers topics such as a molecular gastronomist's recipe for the perfect gin and tonic; 'the Mechanism,' an ancient Greek artifact that might be the world's first laptop computer; and the generation gap caused by parents' and kids' different ide... more »as about privacy online.
Introduction / Clive Thompson --
Doctor Delicious / Ted Allen --
Say everything / Emily Nussbaum --
The pedal-to-the-metal, totally illegal, cross-country sprint for glory / Charles Graeber --
The polarization of extremes / Cass R. Sunstein --
Fragmentary knowledge / John Seabrook --
The life of the Chinese gold farmer / Julian Dibbell --
How your creepy ex-co-workers will kill Facebook / Cory Doctorow --
The meteor farmer / Ben Paynter --
Breaking D-wave / Alex Hutchinson --
Your DNA decoded / Thomas Goetz --
The autumn of the multitaskers / Walter Kirn --
The brain on the stand / Jeffrey Rosen --
Twilight of the books / Caleb Crain --
These images document an atrocity / Robin Mejia --