Technology

Popular Science

Neil deGrasse Tyson Writes to His Fans

On UFOs, Fallacies, Why Science Matters, and More

 
By Neil deGrasse Tyson  November 13, 2019
Social Media

How Ghost Stories Spread in the Era of Social Media

By Sarah Rose Cavanagh  November 4, 2019
Space!

If You Think There’s a Lot of Trash on Earth, Just Go to Outer Space

By Alice Gorman  October 28, 2019
Keen On

Kickstarter Cofounder Yancey Strickler on the Unintended Consequences of the Sharing Economy

By Keen On  October 25, 2019
Transhumanism

Early Visions of Transhumanism Were… Wild

By Philip Ball  October 24, 2019
Tourism

The Fraught History (and Inevitable Future) of Space Tourism

By Peter Ward  October 23, 2019
Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
Keen On

Tiffany Shlain on How Unplugging One Day a Week Can Save Society

By Keen On  October 18, 2019
Keen On

Scott Galloway: Tech Companies Should Be Broken Up

By Keen On  October 11, 2019
The Internet

The Inbox: A Scattered, Ad-Ridden Archive of Our Lives

By Randy Malamud  October 9, 2019
Social Media

What Does “NSFW” Mean in the Age of Social Media?

On the Protean, Problematic Humor of the Internet

By Susanna Paasonen, Kylie Jarrett, and Ben Light  November 8, 2019
Transhumanism

Jeanette Winterson and Mark O’Connell on the Future of Humanity in a Tech-Dominated World

By Literary Hub  October 1, 2019
Keen On

Who Can We Trust? Maria Ressa on the Future of Gatekeeping

By Keen On  September 27, 2019
Keen On

Is the Age of Automation the New Industrial Revolution?

By Keen On  September 20, 2019
The Internet

What Would Happen If the World Lost the Internet?

Mike Pearl on the Unnerving Depth of Our Digital Dependence

By Mike Pearl  September 18, 2019
Genetics

Will It Ever Be Ethical for Athletes to Edit Their Genes?

By Françoise Baylis  September 16, 2019
The Hub

The Problem(s) with Goodreads.

By Jonny Diamond  September 5, 2019
Reading

Who Has Time to Read? And Where? And on What?

By Leah Price  September 5, 2019
The Hub

A robot read 3.5 million books to find we describe women by appearance, and men by virtue.

By Jonny Diamond  August 28, 2019
Artificial Intelligence

If Planet Death Doesn’t Get Us, an AI Superintelligence Most Certainly Will

By Bryan Walsh  August 26, 2019
Keen On

Can Digital Activism Solve the Information Crisis?

By Keen On  August 23, 2019
Fall 2019 Nonfiction Preview

Lit Hub’s Fall 2019 Nonfiction Preview: Technology

By Literary Hub  August 23, 2019
The Hub

Cruel calculator will tell you how many extra books you could read a year if you quit social media.

By Jessie Gaynor  August 9, 2019
Capitalism

False Freedom: Sharing the Scraps from the Perilous Gig Economy

By Steven Greenhouse  August 7, 2019
Politics

The Utopian Dream and Surveillance Nightmare of Electronic Money

By Finn Brunton  August 1, 2019
AI

Can Fiction Introduce Empathy Into AI? Do We Want It To?

By Flynn Coleman  October 3, 2019
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