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Michael Harris

Michael Harris is the author of Solitude and The End of Absence, which won the Governor General’s Literary Award. He writes about media, civil liberties, and the arts, for dozens of publications, including The Washington Post, Wired, and Salon. Harris lives in Vancouver.

  1. Pocket Science: How Smartphones are the Labs of the Future

    The historian Melvin Kranzberg reminded us—in the first of his “Laws of Technology”—that “technology is neither good nor evil.”…

  2. Where VR in Education Has The Greatest Potential

    VR in education isn't just entertaining. It could become integral to a holistic, three-dimensional understanding of a particular subject. We…