Pushing somebody’s buttons usually means to do specific things to anger them. But are there also buttons to push for happiness? Yes, there are, and those happy buttons are sometimes hidden in the ...

Picture an ordinary day and try to count how many menial tasks you have to perform from the moment you get out of bed and until your day is over. How many buttons do you have to push, how many ...

Technology offers a modern approach to resolving life's classic rituals, and to be honest it makes life simpler. Emails have replaced snail mail, texts have replaced talking, and, oddly enough, social ...

All day every day, throughout the United States, people push buttons – on coffee makers, TV remote controls and even social media posts they “like.” For more than seven years, I’ve been trying to ...

The Push-to-Talk feature in Discord allows you to create a button by pressing it, which enables your microphone and allows you to communicate. This is especially useful if you live in an area with a ...

Remote control is a wonder of the age, we press a button, and something happens as if by magic. But what happens if there is ...

In today’s modern automotive landscape, push-button start car s have become a popular feature, signaling a shift away from traditional keys. But is switching to a push-button start car the right move ...

Daniel writes guides on how to use the internet, explainers on how modern technology works, and the occasional smartwatch or e-reader review. He especially likes deep diving into niche topics that ...

This piece, which is adapted from the book Power Button: A History of Pleasure, Panic, and the Politics of Pushing (MIT Press), was originally published by the MIT Press Reader and has been ...