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.
"Stimulating and provocative." - The Miami Herald
"Digital Native Calms the Anxious Masses." - Jack Shafer, Slate
"Fascinating!" - Diane Sawyer, ABC
"A good guide to the next 2-3 years, if not the next twenty." - Big Think
"A vastly cheerier picture of our digital world & how it is evolving." - Bloomberg
Everyword is a “bot” Twitter account that is currently using a collection of 109,229 words that are slowly dripping into the Everyword Twitter feed. It’s rare that a word on the account gets a lot of Re-Tweets or favorites on Twitter, most people just watching them trickle by, but the “P” section of the dictionary — which apparently contains a majority of NSFW words — seems to be getting a lot of attention. Continue reading
I’ve signed a deal with Penguin/Portfolio to write a book about Twitter. I’ll keep this short as I don’t want to spoil the ending. The book will chronicle the story of Twitter from its inception to today, looking at the the ideas that fostered Twitter, along with the business, societal and human aspects of the company. Continue reading
As a kid, I spent a lot of time traveling alone on airplanes.
I was born in England and moved to the U.S. when I was 12 years old after my parents split up. Like a pingpong ball being lobbed across the ocean in slow motion, I bounced back-and-forth internationally several times a year between my family.
During one flight, an older man — probably in his early 60s — sat down next to me. He looked at me, nodded, and took a deep familiar breath as we settled in for the 8 hours we would share together at 35,000 feet. His skin was creased and worn, and his white wavy hair looked like it was sculpted from clay. As he looked over at me, he smiled and the creases around his lips settled into a shape that seemed comfortable and familiar to him. I knew immediately he was kind and we began talking. 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…
TwitterNo one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true. Continue reading
Living in New York City is a completely unpredictable affair. Some mornings you wake up, stagger out of bed, and the city passionately kisses you, filling the day with idyllic charm. Other mornings begin with what feels like a perfectly timed kick, worthy of the last penalty strike in a World Cup soccer match, that lands superlatively between your legs. Often, New York City greets you with both.
After 15 years of these kisses and kicks, it’s time for me to bid mercurial New York adieu; I’m moving to San Francisco. It’s a tough farewell, to say the least, but it’s time to say goodbye.
After 15 years of these kisses and kicks, it’s time for me to bid New York adieu; I’m moving to San Francisco. Continue reading
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
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bilton@nytimes.com
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