Remote work will stress-test the internet — and parts will fail
The massive shift from the office to remote work will test the internet in ways it hasn’t been tested before, a Harvard expert on the technology industry said, offering a real-time experiment that will likely see failures, but from which unexpected solutions will also emerge.
Alvin Powell
• harvard
March 18, 2020 • ~13 min
March 18, 2020 • ~13 min
Online Music Lab studies questions of melody and humanity
Samuel Mehr has long been interested in questions of what music is, how music works, and why music exists. To help find the answers, he’s created the Music Lab, an online, citizen-science project aimed at understanding not just how the human mind interprets music, but why music is a virtually ubiquitous feature of human societies.
Peter Reuell
• harvard
Sept. 12, 2019 • ~6 min
Sept. 12, 2019 • ~6 min
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