Personal Technology
Real Bonding With Family Around the TV Via Skype
Walt Mossberg
Tely Labs’ telyHD turns Skype video chats into room-size experiences, involving whole families or groups of friends on each end—seeing each other, chatting and sharing photos in high definition using TVs instead of computers.
The Digital Solution by Katherine Boehret
App Makes Readers’ Thoughts an Open Book
Katie looks at Subtext, a free iPad app designed to enable and encourage conversations among readers within digital books themselves.
Mossberg’s Mailbox
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What’s happening is that we might, in fact, be at a time in our history where we’re being domesticated by these great big societal things, such as Facebook and the Internet. We’re being domesticated by them, because fewer and fewer and fewer of us have to be innovators to get by. And so, in the cold calculus of evolution by natural selection, at no greater time in history than ever before, copiers are probably doing better than innovators. Because innovation is extraordinarily hard.
— Mark Pagel, fellow of the Royal Society and professor of evolutionary biology, in conversation with Edge.org










