Technology

A drop in e-reader sales and a surge of interest in tablet devices forces a reconsideration in how we've been thinking about the book's future over the past few years.

Five years ago, no one could've predicted the scale, shape and substance of today's Internet, from how social networks work to the invasion of surprisingly conventional forms of commercialization into the web's every corner. What of the web's once bold promise of social transformation? We hash out what's happened with Tim Carmody of The Verge.