My Pocket Portal: Why video calls are magic and always will be
While Back to the Future got a lot of details wrong, like hoverboards, what’s remarkable is one thing they got right - video calling.
A world without Google Maps
“You Won’t Finish Reading This Article” is a column focused on YOU…
Letters to future me: A low-tech way to reflect on ourselves
It's weird how time can pass so slowly that you hardly notice the impact of the small changes you've made in your life. Often, you only become aware of these changes when someone points them out (which, if positive, is one of the best feelings ever), or when you deliberately take the time to reflect on yourself.
The Notification Paradox: To check or not to check…
With your phone flipped face down on the table, you can’t know unless you pick it up and check. At that moment, for a lot of people today, their glass portal becomes a worry machine. A flurry of thoughts quickly fills your mind, as it fights between checking or leaving it alone.
Shortform Amnesia – Do you remember what you watched?
Research in the neuroscience has identified a crucial reason why certain memories are kept by our brains; reward-motivated memory encoding.
How Subtitles Are Changing the Way We Watch
If you opened up Netflix right now and played anything, chances are the subtitles are already on. If you scrolled through TikTok right now, you’ll notice that most videos have subtitles on as well. But why are they on in the first place? And why do we keep them on?