Author: gleick

coming in September

You could get this book now if you had a time machine. Then again, if you had a time machine you wouldn’t need the book.

Bot or Not?

Increasing numbers of Twitterers don’t even pretend to be human. Or worse, do pretend, when they are actually bots—tiny, skeletal, incapable robots, usually little more than a few crude lines of computer code. The scary thing is how easily we can be fooled.