When the Internet became accessible to the public with the advent of Personal Computers (PCs), it existed in a state of anarchy. Though there were millions of live sites, they were disorganized and unsearchable without specific domain names or a background in programming. Critics dismissed the World Wide Web as an unusable outlet of the
Author: Anika Ades
“Don’t let others do for you what you can do for yourself.” Growing up in Vermont, this was a saying I learned in one form or another from an early age. It is rare to hire strangers to mow your lawn, or ask anyone other than a neighbor’s kid to babysit. Even Vermont’s most iconic
Try hard to think about a single aspect of your life that is not touched by a technology invented within your lifetime. You may have purchased the clothes you are currently wearing online, or awoken this morning to the alarm on your cell. Even if you don’t own a smartphone, your credit card information is
I climb in to the familiar perfume of melted cinnamon gum and cough drops, like menthol cigarettes a swift brush of recognition before the slow wave of freedom breaks a crash on the beach like a hug There’s nothing in the world but this. it’s not possible, when the road is this quiet and the
The Observer recently interviewed three young talents in the Boston tech scene. Jack McDermott: A Tufts Senior who has produced two speech therapy apps to help people who struggle with stutters. Foster Lockwood: A recent Jumbo Alum (A’13) who recently began working as an iOS Automation Engineer at Apple after years of local experiences in App design
The Boston Globe’s notoriously picky restaurant reviewer, Devra First, recently bestowed her first “Extraordinary” four-star review in over two years to the chefs at Ribelle in Brookline. Serving Italian cuisine—in the loosest sense of the term—chef/owner Tim Maslow has a quilt of experiences that inform his cooking. At only 29 years old, Maslow has run the
There are many titles oft bestowed upon Al Gore: filmmaker, climate activist, Nobel Peace Laureate, Vice President, presidential nominee—all true and well-deserved. Mr. Gore has dedicated much of his political career and beyond to solving climate change and its numerous geographical, political, economic, and humanitarian consequences. As the first international figure to loudly and profoundly