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Three-Dimensional Mess
Virtual reality is coming for your eyeballs, and there is little, if anything, you can do to stop it. No one needs it, and few seem to even want it, but that is unlikely to stop our overlords in Big Tech from funneling yet more pixels into the world’s fontanel. Humanity ...

Cut-Rate Eden
Passing by the Jacob Riis Houses of Manhattan’s Lower East Side in the summer of 1966, an observer would have seen not the empty concrete plaza and fenced off patches of green lawn common to public housing projects, but a vibrant adventure playground populated with gaggles of ...

Bricked and Mortared
January 10, 2022
New York City is often spoken of as if it were a week from collapse or a year from becoming a new Zion. It depends on who’s talking. New York governor Kathy Hochul recently declared her intention to “not only rebuild from the pandemic, but also to unlock New York’s ...