Katie Hafner
Katie Hafner
Katie Hafneris an American journalist who writes books and articles about technology, healthcare, and society, most often for The New York Times, where she was on staff for a decade. Prior to that, she was a contributing editor for Newsweek and Business Week. She has also written for Esquire, Wired, The New Republic and The New York Times Magazine...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
CountryUnited States of America
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In 1990, Howard Friedman and Leslie Martin, two psychologists at the University of California, Riverside, embarked on a research project within a research project, seeking answers to the question, 'What makes for a long life?'
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In 1981, while doing postdoctoral field work in cultural anthropology, Bonnie A. Nardi lived with villagers in Western Samoa, trying to understand the cultural reasons that people there have an average of eight children.
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Divorce, and broken marriages, are all around us, but they're not frequently depicted on screen, or if they are, they're often depicted in ways that have very little to do with reality.
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'Blue Valentine,' Derek Cianfrance's emotional gunslinger of a film, tears into the topic of moribund marriages with an honesty that's hard to come by in Hollywood these days.
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Berners-Lee started the World Wide Web as a set of protocols for transferring, linking and addressing documents to send over the Net. Without the global reach and open technical standards of the Internet, the Web could never have proliferated as it did.
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Sometimes an ethnographic inquiry will lead to new ways to use an existing technology or will generate new technologies.
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Having a parent live with you under the best of circumstances can be a terrible stressor.
Being a journalist, you write what you see. If we can't do that, what use are we? I turned years of training on myself.
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