• Technology

    Keen On

    Eric Pliner on What To Do When the Algorithm Doesn’t Have the Answer

    By Keen On  February 16, 2022
    Hobbies

    In Search of the Perfect Sound: Confessions of an Accidental Audiophile

    By Garrett Hongo  February 15, 2022
    Keen On

    Amy Webb on How Synthetic Biology Will Change Our Lives

    By Keen On  February 15, 2022
    The Hub

    Free Maus? Digital access to banned books is important but writers still need to eat!

    By Jonny Diamond  February 14, 2022
    Neuroscience

    On Death by GPS and the Search for a Safer Navigation System

    By Christopher Kemp  February 14, 2022
    Keen On

    Dave Pell on the Maddening Hell That Was the 2020 News Cycle

    By Keen On  February 4, 2022
    The Hub

    Have you always wanted to have a conversation with an AI version of poet Nikki Giovanni?

    By Jonny Diamond  February 3, 2022
    Keen On

    Jacob Ward on Artificial Intelligence and Its Threat to Humanity

    By Keen On  February 3, 2022
    Keen On

    Sebastian Mallaby on How Silicon Valley is Shaping Innovation and the Economy

    By Keen On  February 3, 2022
    Keen On

    Albert Wenger on How to Live in the World After Capital

    By Keen On  February 1, 2022
    Keen On

    Christopher Schroeder on Crypto, Web3 and The Global Unleashing

    By Keen On  February 1, 2022
    The Hub

    Reading on a smartphone affects “sigh generation.” (Scientist or… poet?)

    By Jonny Diamond  January 31, 2022
    Attention

    Are Screens Robbing Us of Our Capacity for Deep Reading?

    By Johann Hari  January 31, 2022
    Philosophy

    Adventures in Technophilosophy:
    On the Reality of Virtual Worlds

    By David J. Chalmers  January 28, 2022
    Systems

    On Living in Manipulative Systems (and Why We Shouldn’t Blame Others For Falling Into The Trap)

    By Jacob Ward  January 27, 2022
    The Hub

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

    By Walker Caplan  January 18, 2022
    The Hub

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

    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
    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
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