Technology

Work Diaries

The Weird Underbelly of Tech Writing in Silicon Valley

Lulu Dewey on Her First Writing Job

 
By Lulu Dewey  October 29, 2020
2020 Election

Noam Chomsky on the President, the Pandemic, and the Upcoming Election

By David Barsamian  October 27, 2020
The Quarantine Tapes

Musician Holly Herndon’s Alternative Fantasies for the Internet

By The Quarantine Tapes  October 21, 2020
just the right book

NPR’s Guy Raz Is Cheering
You On

By Just the Right Book   October 15, 2020
Keen On

Why We Can’t Trust Corporations to Fix Society’s Problems

By Keen On  October 13, 2020
Life in a Pandemic

What a Video Game Can Teach Us About Getting Through a Pandemic

By Anna Weltman  October 2, 2020
Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
On Poetry

Brittle Mac Keyboards, the True Enemy of Letters

By Jeremy Sigler  September 30, 2020
Best Reviewed Books of the Month

The Best Reviewed Science, Technology, and Nature Books, September Edition

By Book Marks  September 30, 2020
Surveillance

What Does Privacy Really Mean Under Surveillance Capitalism?

By Carissa Véliz  September 24, 2020
Science

The Best Reviewed Science, Technology, and Nature Books, October Edition

Chronicles of neanderthal love, white supremacist hatred, blockchain chicken farms, and more

By Book Marks  October 29, 2020
Keen On

The Stakes of Social Media Have Never Been Higher

By Keen On  September 14, 2020
Keen On

Is 2020 the Year Tech Companies Take Over the Global Economy?

By Keen On  September 9, 2020
just the right book

Jenny Odell: There Is No Work Without Care and Maintenance

By Just the Right Book   September 3, 2020
AI

On the Difficulty of Finding a Distinct Human Voice for
an AI Heroine

Ros Anderson Navigates Unlikely Domains of Freedom
and Self-Expression

By Ros Anderson  August 25, 2020
The Internet

One Way to Write About a Millennial Protagonist? Don’t Settle on a Single Form.

By Emma Jane Unsworth  August 21, 2020
Social Media

Social Media, Loneliness, and Rabbit Holes to Radicalism

By Fatima Bhutto  August 19, 2020
Time to Eat the Dogs

The Argument Against Human Colonies in Space

By Time to Eat the Dogs   August 18, 2020
New Books Network

How Can We Understand Computerization as a Social Process?

On the New Books Network Podcast

By New Books Network  August 18, 2020
SVWC NOW

WATCH: Roger McNamee on Big Tech, Civil Unrest, and the Future of AI

By The Virtual Book Channel  August 17, 2020
The Internet

The Internet Has Split Our Sense of Self. Can the Page Reproduce That?

By Rebecca Watson  August 12, 2020
Totalitarianism

Cautionary Lessons From Turkey’s Slide Into Totalitarianism

By Elliot Ackerman  August 4, 2020
Booksellers

On Capitol Hill, an anonymous bookseller called out Amazon.

By Aaron Robertson  July 30, 2020
Feminism

In the 1990s, Feminism Found a New Ally: Computers

By Lisa Levenstein  July 30, 2020
AI

From Hemingway-inspired fan fiction to pun-filled poems, a new language-generating AI does it all.

By Aaron Robertson  July 22, 2020
Comics

Climactic Moments in Literature Rescheduled as Zoom Meetings

By Kate Gavino  September 23, 2020
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