Imagine it is 2009. You open a box, and there it is, the Kindle Fire — a handheld computer weighing less than a pound with a brilliant seven-inch touchscreen. Within minutes, you’re watching "Lost," ...

So, yeah, I’ve been super-cranky about the Internet lately, worrying about growing inequality and hyper-temp jobs and class hostility. But then I bought a new computer, and now I love technology again ...

The quest for smaller and smaller computing devices usually involves a tradeoff between processor power, battery life, communications features, memory and storage. While the product I’m looking at ...