“What would Google do?” is not only a meme in media theory but the title of a Jeff Jarvis book, where he uses the question as shorthand for looking at old problems in new ways. Now Mike and Maaike, the pair of designers who created Google’s G1 phone (the first based on its Android software), [...]

How do you think about your car? Is it less “you” in these tougher times? That seemed to be the intent of a survey of 1000 U.S. adults—not necessarily car owners or shoppers—conducted nearly a month ago by Ipsos Public Affairs for the used-car giant CarMax, asking the following: “Thinking about your car, would you [...]