"Vietnam's Vo Nguyen Giap"
The Washington Post (November 1, 2013)
"The Spy Who Loved Us"
The New Yorker (May 23, 2005)
Black Box
A computer like the one at the trader's elbow is called a black box, meaning that its program is a mystery to the uninitiated. The box is emotionless, opaque, obscure. It gives no winks and nods. "The magic gadget is a little threatening," the trader confesses. Yet people on the floor are impressed by its one salient feature: it appears to have an uncanny knack for being on the right side of trades.
The New Yorker; April 26 & May 3, 1999
Dress Code
Wearables are already bringing us "heads up, hands free" augmented reality in the workplace. Soon we'll be sporting them all the time. Did someone say Borg?
Wired, April 1998
Exile on Newbury Street
On the advice of an astrologer, Nguyen Van Thieu changed his birthday from a date in November 1924 to a more auspicious day, April 5, 1923. The spirits were not fooled. When he resigned as president of the Republic of Vietnam -- the country he had ruled for ten years, until it blinked out of existence with the end of the Vietnam War on April 30, 1975 -- Thieu, in a tear-filled television broadcast, said: "Over the past ten years, all years, months, days and hours in my life have been bad, as my horoscope forecast. As regards my fate, I can enjoy no happiness."
New York Times Magazine, December 2001
Being Nicholas
Nicholas Negroponte is the most Wired man we know (and that's saying something).
Wired, November 1995
The Future of Money
He used to be the most powerful banker in the world. Now he's talking like a cypherpunk. An amazingly frank interview with Walter Wriston about money, the economy, and the digital era.
Wired, October 1996
Gene Genie
It's a hundred times faster than the best serial supercomputer. It's a billion times more energy efficient. It's a trillion times denser than the best storage media. It's a teaspoonful of DNA that's a computer! And Leonard Adleman invented it.
Wired, August 1995
The Phynancier
Out on the high risk frontier where mathematics, physics, and finance collide, the enigmatic and hugely successful quant David Shaw is determined to make Wall Street obsolete.
Wired, January 1997
Think Tanked
The memo from Paul Allen to Interval Research was loud and clear: Give me less R and more D.
Wired, December 1999