Technology

The Hub

This Dune concept art book kerfuffle is a case of “NFT brain.”

 
By Walker Caplan  January 18, 2022
The Hub

Roxane Gay has started a $25,000 writing fellowship—for Substacks.

By Walker Caplan  January 12, 2022
The Hub

Did Philip K. Dick discover the real-life Matrix in 1977?

By Vanessa Willoughby  December 16, 2021
The Hub

Of course venture capitalists are super into Andy Weir.

By Jonny Diamond  December 8, 2021
Natural Resources

The Dangerous, Dirty Job of Oil Extraction: On the History of Offshore Exploration

By Tabitha Lasley  December 8, 2021
The Hub

A novelist is suing Amazon for selling “centuries-old” copies of his book for over $1000.

By Walker Caplan  December 7, 2021
Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
The Hub

George Saunders is testing how big a writing class can get.

By Walker Caplan  December 2, 2021
Fiction/Non/Fiction

Pamela Paul and Cecilia Kang on the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of the Internet

By Fiction Non Fiction  December 2, 2021
The Hub

J.R.R. Tolkien’s estate has shut down a cryptocurrency called . . . “J.R.R. Token.”

By Walker Caplan  November 23, 2021
The Hub

That “book exchange” making the rounds on Instagram again isn’t what it seems.

By Walker Caplan  January 18, 2022
Big Table

“Our Photographs Come Out of Our Own Experience.” Jona Frank on Her New Visual Memoir

By Big Table  November 15, 2021
AI

How Collaborating With Artificial Intelligence Could Help Writers of the Future

By Drew Zeiba  November 9, 2021
Big Table

Damian Bradfield on the Future of the Internet

By Big Table  November 8, 2021
TV

How David Foster Wallace Anticipated Netflix’s Digital Gatekeeping

Stuart Jeffries on the Algorithm and the Illusion of Choice

By Stuart Jeffries  November 1, 2021
The Internet

Pamela Paul on the Internet As Both Lifeline and Reflection of What We’ve Lost

By Pamela Paul  October 29, 2021
Open Source

“Nature’s Own Repair Kit.” On the CRISPR Challenge

By Open Source  October 29, 2021
Keen On

Jonathan Reisman on the Secrets of the Human Body

By Keen On  October 29, 2021
Keen On

Ian Rosenberg on Understanding Contemporary Free Speech Issues in America

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On  October 29, 2021
Misinformation

The Call is Coming From Inside the House: On Fighting Disinformation

By Nina Jankowicz  October 28, 2021
Best Reviewed Books of the Month

Here are October’s Best Reviewed Science, Technology, and Nature Books

By Book Marks  October 28, 2021
Keen On

Pamela Paul on What We’ve Lost to the Internet

By Keen On  October 28, 2021
Science

On the Intellectual Property Battle Behind the COVID-19 Vaccine

Brendan Borrell Breaks Down How a Lifesaving Technology Almost Didn’t Happen

By Brendan Borrell  October 26, 2021
Keen On

Ethan Lou on Crypto and the Bitcoin Boom

By Keen On  October 21, 2021
The Writing Life

How Do You Write About People Who Don’t Want To Be Written About?

By Ethan Lou  October 18, 2021
World War II

Filthy, Smelly, Sleep, Repeat: On the Challenges of Fighting Inside a Tank

By James Holland  November 17, 2021
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