In 1999 the human population surpassed six billion, Lance Armstrong won his first Tour de France, The Matrix came out and the dot-com bubble was approaching its climax.
The Internet began to take off several years earlier with the introduction of Mosaic, the first Web browser with mass appeal. In 1994, the same founders formed a [...]

What do you get when you give lab rats a strong dose of technology? Do they become anxious? Addicted? Neurotic? Actually, it’s an impossible experiment that we’ll have to just work out on ourselves this time (and are doing so at increasing speed). Will technology end up making us sick?
In the latest controversy over the [...]