Hi, I'm David.

And this is my Tumblr.

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The Race to Create Working, Practical Personal Jetpacks

In the opening sequence of the 1965’s Thunderball, James Bond, having just dispatched the villainous SPECTRE agent Colonel Jacques Bouvar, f

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YouTube’s NFL Sunday Ticket deal is a brilliant move for its subscription future

It’s all about the bundle, whether that’s TV or streaming services.

I’ve been writing for years about the fact that YouTube’s ambition is to basically eat the entire entertainment industry. And it’s starting to get close.

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What is a Super App? | Andreessen Horowitz

A Super App is a multiuse application that can perform the functions of many programs in one. Learn about current examples of Super Apps.

My main theory of technology is that everyone wants to build a super app, everybody’s gonna spend a decade trying, and nobody’s gonna pull it off.

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So You Want to Be a TikTok Star

The social-media platform is transforming the music industry. Is that a good thing?

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Secrets of the Christmas Tree Trade

Turf wars. Protection money. Scientology. And my boss, a man who’s half-convinced he really is Santa.

I will never look at Christmas trees the same again.

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WALL-E is not, in other words, a film that offers eerie premonitions about our future alone; it’s a film that shows us just how predictable our future had always been.

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We had a bunch of plans for The Vergecast this week, but then we just ended up in a smart kitchen making Thanksgiving dinner. So that's The Vergecast this week! It's a fun one.

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Your own personal Google: how Mem plans to reinvent note-taking apps with AI

If Mem is right, you might soon search your brain the way you search the internet.

This was a fun one to write — AI is changing the way we think and take notes, and we’re only at the beginning of where it’s all headed.

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Every Mastodon account is a little blog. You can post text and images to it. You can link to things. It’s a blog.

Simon Wilison

I’ve been reading a lot about Mastodon over the last couple of weeks, and this is my favorite explanation so far. Mastodon is blogs, pretending to be Twitter. Which sounds kinda great!

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I got to talk to a bunch of the people who made the original iPhone, all of whom told me they had no idea just how important this wacky cellphone was going to be.

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I spent Sunday driving for hours and hours just to spend way too much money on Snap’s new face-camera, Spectacles. I regret nothing.

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I was on the radio last week! Talking about headphone jacks! I have...strong feelings.

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I spent a few days with Allo, Google’s fascinating but unfinished messaging app, and wrote a little bit about the experience.

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I’m in the market for a new computer, since my iMac is dying of old age. I’m pretty sure I’m going to buy a Chromebook. 

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I am, uh, weirdly into the idea of Soylent Coffeist.