How quickly we’ll see flying cars, robot workers, data-privacy rules, Chinese world domination and the end of car ownership depends less on the tech involved than on us.
Christopher Mims writes Keywords, a weekly column on technology. Before joining the Journal in 2014, he was the lead technology reporter for Quartz and has written on science and tech for publications ranging from Technology Review, Smithsonian, Wired, the Atlantic, Slate and other publications. Mims, who has degree in neuroscience and behavioral biology from Emory University, lives in Baltimore.
November 16, 2018 02:00 pm ET
How quickly we’ll see flying cars, robot workers, data-privacy rules, Chinese world domination and the end of car ownership depends less on the tech involved than on us.
November 12, 2018 04:29 pm ET
The mobile internet, automation and AI will have profound implications—for jobs, infrastructure, investment, global competition and more.
November 8, 2018 03:00 pm ET
Machines that sponge energy from the environment to power ultra-efficient devices is no longer a fantasy, writes Christopher Mims. Some people even call it perpetual computing.
November 2, 2018 05:52 pm ET
Sharp criticism of Facebook by members of Congress has become a mainstay of this election cycle—even as most of those same representatives spend campaign funds on the site to target voters.
October 26, 2018 04:04 pm ET
All over the world, citizens, bureaucrats and politicians are pushing back against the power of big tech companies.
October 15, 2018 12:00 pm ET
What if you could store and deliver goods as easily as data? Amazon, Walmart and others are using AI and robotics to transform everything from appliance shopping to grocery delivery. Welcome to the physical cloud.
October 11, 2018 12:01 pm ET
Self-driving cars may eventually work together to create nearly real-time maps. But we’re nowhere close to that now.
October 4, 2018 02:00 pm ET
The microbrand trend—think Casper Mattresses and Rowing Blazers—is changing who launches products, how they’re funded, manufactured, advertised and even how they are conceived in the first place.
September 27, 2018 01:00 pm ET
Millennials outsource life—cleaning, social planning, even shampoo—to housing startups. Visit Scott Levine, who is part of a growing phenomenon that tech and real-estate companies are hoping to cash in on: co-living.
September 20, 2018 01:00 pm ET
The quest to offer free two-day delivery has forced retailers like Walmart and Target to spend billions on distribution infrastructure. It’s also forced smaller retailers to hand off selling, warehousing and shipping to a growing roster of startups and giants like FedEx and UPS—not to mention Amazon itself.
September 13, 2018 09:30 am ET
The bubble around self-driving cars is turning into a “trough of disillusionment.” Many companies are already adjusting their strategies to fit this reality.