Quoted: EVERYONE knows that babies crawl before they walk, and that tricycles come before two-wheelers. But at what age should children get their first cellphone, laptop or virtual persona?

Quoted: The robots are on the move — leaping, scrambling, rolling, flying, climbing. They are figuring out how to get here on their own. They come to help us, protect us, amuse us — and some even do floors.

Uh, this is the April issue. Nicely written, though.

Quoted: In the coming weeks I’d learn that Aypayok wasn’t fooling around....

I heard about this book straight from the author, who I met a while back (in a context unrelated to the subject of the book). It sounds interesting.

Quoted: Conventional wisdom says that technology is the greatest new growth frontier, coupling infinite potential with an ever-growing number of faster, more efficient, and more reliable products and instruments. According to this view, we live in an unprecedented golden era of technological expansion. Future Hype argues the opposite. Author Bob Seidensticker, who has an intimate understanding of technology on professional, theoretical, and academic levels, asserts that today’s technological achievements are neither fast nor progressive.