Beyond the GUI: It’s Time for a Conversational User Interface

  • By Ron Kaplan
  • 6:32 AM

The GUI has served us well for a long time, but it’s beginning to fray around the edges. We’re now grappling with an unintended side effect of ubiquitous computing: a surge in complexity that overwhelms the graphical-only interface — especially …

The GitHub Revolution: Why We’re All in Open Source Now

  • By Mikeal Rogers
  • 6:30 AM

As people who were once just users become producers, they’re re-shaping the culture of open source. GitHub is doing to open source what the internet did to the publishing industry. And it’s creating a culture gap between the previous, big-project …

The End of the Web, Search, and Computer as We Know It

It all began with the “lifestream,” a phenomenon that I predicted in the 1990s and shared in the pages of Wired almost exactly 16 years ago. It arrived in the form of blog posts and RSS feeds, Twitter and other …

Forget the Internet of Things: Here Comes the ‘Internet of Cars’

  • By Thilo Koslowski
  • 9:30 AM

The connected vehicle is leading the automotive industry to its most significant innovation phase since the creation of the automobile itself.

The Surprising Truth: Technology Is Aging in Reverse

We may be trained to think that the new is about to overcome the old, but that’s just an optical illusion. Because the failure rate of the new is much, much higher than the failure rate of the old.