Technology

The Longest Year: 2020+

Screensharing: Documenting Our
Long Year on Zoom

Brandon Taylor on Thomas Dworzak’s Digital Record of The Longest Year: 2020+

 
By Brandon Taylor and Thomas Dworzak  May 6, 2021
just the right book

Tim Wu on the Corporate Dangers of a Return to Fascism

By Just the Right Book   May 6, 2021
Keen On

Seth Goldenberg on Developing a Practice of Radical Curiosity

By Keen On  May 6, 2021
The Hub

The key to dodging cyber censorship rules might be . . . a Minecraft library?

By Walker Caplan  May 5, 2021
Keen On

The Zuckerberg Effect: What We Get Wrong About
Startup Stories

By Keen On  May 5, 2021
The Internet Age

Seeking a Counterculture of Commitment in an Age of Infinite Browsing

By Pete Davis  May 3, 2021
Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
The Hub

What you never knew you’ve always wanted: a speaker shaped like a book.

By Walker Caplan  April 29, 2021
Artificial Intelligence

On What Emotional Attachment to Robots Might Mean for the Future

By Kate Darling  April 29, 2021
Conspiracy theories

False Memories and Manufactured Myths: Growing Up in a Conspiracy Theory Household

By Faith Merino  April 28, 2021
Big Data

Who is “Public” Data
Really For?

Jer Thorp on Openness and Access in Our Era of
Technology and Information

By Jer Thorp  May 6, 2021
Reading

Why Should You Read?

By Will Self  April 22, 2021
Life in a Pandemic

How I Spent My Plague Year Inside a Video Game

By J. Robert Lennon  April 20, 2021
The Internet

How the Internet Turned “Florida Man” Into a Figure of Indulgence, Decadence, and Bad Decision Making

By Tyler Gillespie  April 19, 2021
Keen On

Nichole Perlroth on Our Digital Path to Mutually-Assured Destruction

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on the Keen On Podcast

By Keen On  April 16, 2021
Keen On

Will the AIs Really Be Kind to Us?

By Keen On  April 15, 2021
Space!

Inside the Secret Facility Where the USSR’s First Cosmonauts Trained

By Stephen Walker  April 15, 2021
The Hub

Gawker is coming back.

By Walker Caplan  April 14, 2021
The Hub

This 1980 George Plimpton TV commercial for video games is a masterpiece.

By Jonny Diamond  April 14, 2021
Keen On

Is Social Media Really Polarizing Us? Or Is it Just… Us?

By Keen On  April 14, 2021
Pop Music

How Björk Helped Iceland Weather the Global
Financial Crisis

By Panos A. Panay & R. Michael Hendrix  April 12, 2021
Big Data

Why Targeted Ads Are a Disaster for Democracy

By Carissa Véliz  April 9, 2021
Scams

Wet Hot American Scammer: Revisiting the Magnificent Failure of the Fyre Festival

Gabrielle Bluestone on Billy McFarland’s Evil Genius for Pure Hype

By Gabrielle Bluestone  April 7, 2021
Storytelling

On the Valuable Writing Lessons I Learned as a Television Reporter

By Nancy Johnson  April 1, 2021
The Hub

A new e-book bill is dividing publishers and libraries (but the real culprit is Amazon).

By Walker Caplan  March 31, 2021
The Hub

You can now read Jane Austen in . . . molecule form.

By Walker Caplan  April 23, 2021
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