Nick is the author of I Live in the Future & Here's How It Works. The book examines how technology is creatively disrupting society, business and our brains. Click here to enter the book Web Site. You can buy the book at the links below.
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In my new book, I Live in the Future & Here’s How It Works, you will find a series of little black and white squares called a QR code. Using one of a free applications on your mobile phone you can access additional content from the book.
To get a free code reader, for iPhone, Android, Palm or Blackberry, either search in your smartphone app store for “ScanLife”, or go to the following URL on your mobile phone: http://j.mp/BiltonCode Continue reading
Nick Bilton is a New York Times technology columnist and lead blogger for The New York Times Bits Blog. His background spans design, user interface, journalism, hardware hacking, and more. He previously worked as a researcher in The Times R&D Labs, looking at the media landscape 2-10 years out. In addition to The Times, Nick helped co-found NYCResistor, & is an Adjunct Professor at NYU. Continue Reading…
TwitterIn my new book, I Live in the Future & Here’s How It Works, you will find a series of little black and white squares called a QR code. Using one of a free applications on your mobile phone you can access additional content from the book.
To get a free code reader, for iPhone, Android, Palm or Blackberry, either search in your smartphone app store for “ScanLife”, or go to the following URL on your mobile phone: http://j.mp/BiltonCode Continue reading
I’ve never been very good at taking tests.
My A.D.D. usually kicked in after the fourth of fifth question and I had more fun daydreaming about how I could land a plane if the pilot suffered a stroke, saving hundreds of beholden passengers, than plodding through a list of multiple choice questions.
This all changed in the summer of 1992. Continue reading
Last week I wrote a story for the Bits Blog about 4Food, a new “healthy fast food” restaurant that’s opening in New York City in September.
I know what you’re probably thinking: “Huh, you’re don’t write about food for The Times, you write about nerd-stuff.” The reason I wrote about 4Food was because of the way it’s connected to the Web and allows a new kind of social integration with you lunch, integrating with Twitter, Facebook and Foursquare. Continue reading
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bilton@nytimes.com
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