by Bennat Berger | May 16, 2017 | Culture, Technology, Urban Planning
Virtually, Amazon is as daunting as the river it shares a name with: by total sales and market capitalization, it’s the largest Internet retailer in the world. Having begun its run in 1994 as a modest online bookstore, the tech giant has expanded rapidly to offer...
by Bennat Berger | May 1, 2017 | Culture, Current Events, Technology, Urban Planning
There’s a reason young people love Minecraft. Called a “sandbox” video game, Minecraft is a blank slate that enables players to build brand new worlds using only building blocks and the contents of their imagination, then take on three-dimensional adventures from...
by Bennat Berger | Apr 5, 2017 | Technology, Urban Planning
Odds are, you’ve pondered off-hand the nature of our shared and individual reality. Am I real? Is anything real? To most mature, sober adults, the consideration seems absurd. But there are some that think this a possibility not only worth pondering, but investigating....
by Bennat Berger | Apr 5, 2017 | Culture, Technology
What does it take to tell a story? And more importantly, what does it matter? These days, a string of tweets suffices as a story. Try telling Hemingway or Proust that a “tweetstorm” of 140-character blurbs, prefaced with THREAD (1/13), is a good story, and they’d...
by Bennat Berger | Mar 21, 2017 | Culture, Technology, Urban Planning
In New York City, the goal to merge innovation with government is apparent on various fronts. This objective has been about a decade in the making, and while we’re only scratching the service of its potential, NYC has made great strides. For various reasons, the...
by Bennat Berger | Mar 13, 2017 | Culture, Philanthropy, Technology
Smartphones have become a crutch–a portable hub–for many users in our permanently plugged-in society. Although they can make our lives infinitely easier, the control and influence they exert over our habits can be alarming. The limitations of current technology...
