A new exhibition by Richard Vijgen reveals the invisible architecture of radio waves, all around us.
The invisible world around us pulses with radio waves, an electromagnetic tide that washes over everything. If you could see it, everything around us would ripple with information, like dropping a tab of acid after watching The Matrix.
Digital clutter can be just as anxiety-inducing as piles of useless junk on your desk. Here’s a four-step detox process.
There are two sides to the messy workspace story, according to science. One says that keeping things neat prompts other productive behaviors such as eating healthier and doing socially responsible things like giving to charity. Recent research from the University of Minnesota found that working amid clutter actually encouraged creativity.
The 9-to-5 job is dying. But what will an increasingly independent workforce mean for the economy?
Traditional work is dying.
Before it was demolished, Hong Kong’s Kowloon Walled City was a marvel of urban life. Its dark, vibrant imagery has influenced pop culture in ways you don’t even realize.
Kowloon Walled City was once the densest city block in the world, with 33,000 people and 1,000 businesses squeezed into tiny shacks stacked 14 stories high. Photographer Greg Girard, who lived in Hong Kong in the mid-1980s, stumbled on the development one night when he was shooting pictures of the nearby airport.
At coding schools across the country, there’s much less of a gender imbalance than in computer science programs and at tech companies. Why?
Only 29% of all employees across the most influential U.S. technology companies—Google, Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, and Intel—are women. But that includes salespeople, service workers, and communications professionals. Companies that break out gender ratio by role report an an even more drastic disparity. At Twitter, 10% of technical workers are women. At Facebook, it’s 16%.
A team of engineers at Dropbox’s Hack Week re-created the fictional compression schema from HBO’s Silicon Valley.
You would be forgiven for thinking that the elevator pitch for Daniel Reiter Horn’s latest project sounds familiar. That’s because there’s a good chance you saw it on HBO. In fact, everything about the project, right down to its name, was ripped right from the network’s hit comedy Silicon Valley. And that was precisely the point.
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