Let’s start with a story. Just a few years ago, when I first turned to think seriously about the changes wrought by 40 years of the computer revolution, I found myself in a meeting with some senior figures in cybertechnology:…

The Autobiography of Mark Twain: The Complete and Authoritative Edition, Volume 1 Edited by Harriet Elinor Smith et al. (University of California Press, 743 pages, $34.95) There’s something curiously unsatisfying about Mark Twain, something strangely incomplete about nearly all his…