Apple was famously mocked for asking the question, “What is a computer?” when it tried to redefine a “real” computer from its established definition as a machine with a traditional form factor (laptop or desktop), running a window-based graphical user interface (GUI), and controlled with a traditional input (mouse and keyboard).

The ad was meant to portray how an iPad is a computer, but with a modular form factor (add a keyboard if you like), running a simpler interface (iPadOS), and controlled with modern inputs (multitouch and Apple Pencil). The ad is now meme legend, but the question will likely forever remain as long as Apple keeps making new electronic devices: What is a computer?

In 1984, a computer looked like the Macintosh; in 2007, any person would have said a MacBook or Dell laptop; in recent years, more powerful apps and better keyboard and trackpad support have made the iPad a more capable computer than it was when it launched as a giant iPhone and color e-reader in 2010. So what is a computer in 2024 and beyond? Well, if you’re Apple, the next evolution of the computer looks like Vision Pro and you control it with your eyes and hand gestures.

Faith is a luxury in FX’s majestic and searing Shogun, the new live-action series adaptation of James Clavell’s bestselling novel. This is not simply about the intrusive presence of Christianity, installed in feudal Japan by capital-seeking Portuguese. It’s faith in people. Faith between political allies, between family, between strangers who share connections that transcend barriers. When faith is rewarded, it is life-saving. But when faith is misplaced, it cuts deep, like the severing slash of a sword.

Almost 50 years since Clavell’s Shogun hit bookshelves and close to 45 since it was a hit TV miniseries starring the legendary Toshiro Mifune, it is reborn as a sprawling 10-episode drama on FX. Often violent, sometimes erotic, and at all times magnificent in its pure entertainment factor and period immersion, Shogun clears any rightfully placed suspicions over its ungainly premise to tell a classic tale of understanding and discovery, wrapped up in a complex political thriller.