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Clive Thompson

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Clive Thompson (@pomeranian99) is a WIRED contributing editor and author of Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World.

The Big Story

The Cure for Disposable Plastic Crap Is Here—and It’s Loony

Aug 1, 2024 6:00 AM

Machine Readable

Back to BASIC—the Most Consequential Programming Language in the History of Computing

Jul 29, 2024 6:30 AM

Ideas

The Battle Over Bike Lanes Needs a Mindset Shift

Jan 24, 2023 6:00 AM

Ideas

AI Shouldn’t Compete With Workers—It Should Supercharge Them

Oct 13, 2022 9:00 AM

Ideas

After Going Solar, I Felt the Bliss of Sudden Abundance

Jul 29, 2022 8:00 AM

Ideas

Drones Are Turning Into Personal Flying Machines

May 17, 2022 8:00 AM

excel-ent

Spreadsheets Are Hot—and Cranking Out Complex Code

Apr 6, 2022 8:00 AM

Smart Assistant

It’s Like GPT-3, but for Code—Fun, Fast, and Full of Flaws

Mar 15, 2022 6:00 AM

Undone

Hundreds of Ways to Get S#!+ Done—and We Still Don’t

Jul 27, 2021 6:00 AM

Ideas

Tech Companies Don't Need to Be Creepy to Make Money

May 14, 2021 8:00 AM

Ideas

Sorry, but ‘I Missed the Meeting’ Is No Longer an Excuse

Apr 15, 2021 8:00 AM

Ideas

Good-Bye Zoom. Hello Low-Key Ambient Snooping

Mar 10, 2021 7:00 AM

Ideas

Climate Change Needs an Operation Warp Speed

Jan 17, 2021 7:00 AM

Ideas

The Few, the Tired, the Open Source Coders

Nov 17, 2020 6:00 AM

Surveillance U

What AI College Exam Proctors Are Really Teaching Our Kids

Oct 20, 2020 6:00 AM

Ideas

QAnon Is Like a Game—a Most Dangerous Game

Sep 22, 2020 6:00 AM

Nothing to See Here

YouTube’s Plot to Silence Conspiracy Theories

Sep 18, 2020 6:00 AM

North Star

Tech Workers Are Living the American Dream—in Canada

Aug 18, 2020 6:00 AM

Energy Stars

How ‘Sustainable’ Web Design Can Help Fight Climate Change

Jun 23, 2020 6:00 AM

Out of the Box

The New Startup: No Code, No Problem

May 19, 2020 6:00 AM