Firm gets prison break

Talk about capturing a market — Send A Package has done it. The downtown firm has become New York’s inmate super store. The recently launched company ships pre-approved care packages to prisoners in New York state jails. Chris Barrett, a New York marketing executive and a former inmate, started the...

Post-literate media

I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse. -- Emperor Charles V But in which language does one speak to a machine, and what can be expected by way of response? The questions arise from the accelerating data-streams out of which we’ve learned to draw the breath of life, posed in consultation with the equipment that scans the flesh and tracks the spirit, cues ...