• Technology

    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
    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
    Comics

    Climactic Moments in Literature Rescheduled as Zoom Meetings

    By Kate Gavino  September 23, 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

    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?

    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
    On Grief

    Death and The Cloud: How to Grieve in the Digital Afterlife

    By Angela Rose Brussel  June 11, 2020
    Protest

    How Digital Chatter Manifests in
    Real-World Protest

    By Peter Pomerantsev  June 4, 2020
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