Longer Reads.

And the great Lucy Kellaway.

1. One of the “themes” (if you will) of News Items is that the future isn’t in the future, it’s here, happening now. Following is an excerpt from a piece posted yesterday at nytimes.com.

“He was also scared because the experiment showed, in a concrete way, that humanity was at the dawn of a new era, one in which our thoughts could theoretically be snatc…