Observation Deck

Let's figure out a way to, as the techies say, surface all that data. I want to see (or smell) all of it. Who knows? Maybe the isoscapes of daily life will teach us all a way to build something new out of the basic ingredients of our everyday lives.

People go to cities to watch other people. In any city, at any given moment, some people are performing (whether they intend to or not) and some people are audience (whether they mean to be or not).

Which is more important: The presidential election or the discovery of the Higgs boson? I try to figure out the answer, by way of some thinking about the differences between science journalism and political journalism as I've practiced them.

I try to think about changes in my favorite sub-genre, post-apocalyptic stories … because those stories have changed.

What happens when you build a ride, a whole environment, based not on traditional hand animation but on 3D, computer generated data?

I imagine you're tired of talking about Prometheus at this point—and I know that all of us geeks have pretty much aired out our criticisms, questions, defenses, counterattacks, etc. But frankly, I'm still mad...

You might already know that reflective rooftops are better for the environment. They reduce the Urban Heat Island effect, help keep buildings cool, and therefore lower energy use. But on a recent trip, flying into Burbank, I began to wonder...

Wired Senior Editor, Adam Rogers weighs in with the possibility that everything is genre.

Wired Senior Editor Adam Rogers talks about skyscrapers and relativity in this week's Observation Deck.

Wired Magazine's Senior Editor, Adam Rogers talks about long forgotten tunnels, the romanticism of underground dwelling, and his own tale of a figure from underneath; in this inaugural edition of The Observation Deck.