Tag: technology

  • The Precious

    The Precious

    My daughter’s nickname for our tablet is “The Precious.” Like Gollum in The Lord of the Rings, we are addicted to this object we carry around. We gaze at it…

  • The limits of empathy

    The limits of empathy

    When I went to see Karim Ben Khelifa’s virtual reality installation The Enemy at the MIT Museum, the first question in my mind was: How is this going to make me feel?…