Ftrain, by Paul Ford

Wired Magazine

Oct 26, 2025 · Article

The Argument for Letting AI Burn It All Down

Jun 14, 2023 · Article

My Father’s Death in 7 Gigabytes

Apr 30, 2023 · Article

How the Piano Helped Me Fall Back in Love With Tech

Apr 24, 2023 · Article

So Your Kid Wants to Be a Twitch Streamer

Feb 11, 2023 · Article

God Did the World a Favor by Destroying Twitter

Feb 2, 2023 · Article

A New Drug Switched Off My Appetite. What’s Left?

Nov 9, 2022 · Article

A Tweet Before Dying

Nov 2, 2022 · Article

Dear Artists: Do Not Fear AI Image Generators

Sep 13, 2022 · Article

What Modern Humans Can Learn From Ancient Software

Aug 2, 2022 · Article

Forget Disruption. Tech Needs to Fetishize Stability

Jun 11, 2022 · Article

Life Is Great in the Age of No Secrets

May 25, 2022 · Article

The ‘Form’ Element Created the Modern Web. Was It a Big Mistake?

Apr 13, 2022 · Article

Time Got So Much Weirder. The World Needs a New Lexicon

Mar 31, 2022 · Article

I Finally Reached Computing Nirvana. What Was It All For?

Feb 14, 2022 · Article

The Best Way to Learn Online? Be a Lurker

Jan 10, 2022 · Article

A Grand Unified Theory of Buying Stuff

Nov 30, 2021 · Article

The Most Efficient Way to Debug the Simulation

Oct 27, 2021 · Article

Climate Stress Was Getting Me Down, So I Made a Clicker Game

Sep 26, 2021 · Article

Climate Change Is the New Dot-Com Bubble

Aug 5, 2021 · Article

A Field Guide for Nature-Resistant Nerds

Jun 8, 2021 · Article

Crypto Isn’t About Money. It’s About Fandom

May 16, 2021 · Article

Why Humans Are So Bad at Seeing the Future

Apr 7, 2021 · Article

My Dream of the Great Unbundling

Mar 11, 2021 · Article

So You Want to Prepare for Doomsday

Feb 7, 2021 · Article

The Secret, Essential Geography of the Office

Nov 16, 2020 · Article

Love the USPS? Join the Infrastructure Appreciation Society!

Oct 19, 2020 · Article

It's Time to Pick Classes for the 2073-74 School Year!

Sep 21, 2020 · Article

The Power and Paradox of Bad Software

Aug 17, 2020 · Article

‘Real’ Programming Is an Elitist Myth

Jun 22, 2020 · Article

The Infinite Loop of Supply Chains

May 18, 2020 · Article

We Are All Livestreamers Now, and Zoom Is Our Stage

Apr 20, 2020 · Article

Stones, Clocks, and What We Should Actually Leave Behind

Feb 17, 2020 · Article

How Technology Explodes the Concept of ‘Generations’

May 13, 2019 · Article

Why I (Still) Love Tech: In Defense of a Difficult Industry

Feb 2, 2014 · Article

Netflix and Google Books Are Blurring the Line Between Past and Present

Apr 15, 2013 · Article

Meet the Web's Operating System: HTTP