• Technology

    Metrology

    As of Today, the Last Physical Object Used as a Standard of Measurement is No More

    By Cutter Wood  May 20, 2019
    News and Culture

    On the Life-Hacking Origins
    of Incel Entitlement

    By Joseph M. Reagle, Jr.  May 3, 2019
    The Robots

    What Are We Saying When We Call
    an Algorithm ‘Creative’?

    By Marcus du Sautoy  April 17, 2019
    Politics

    Heike Geissler’s Grim Account of
    the Amazon Workplace

    By Monika Zaleska  April 16, 2019
    Excerpts

    How to Unsettle People by
    Doing Nothing

    By Jenny Odell  April 11, 2019
    Essay

    How the Algorithm Rewards Extremism

    By Clive Thompson  March 28, 2019
    Feature

    Why the Robot Takeover Isn’t Coming Any Time Soon

    By Lena Andersson  March 27, 2019
    Silicon Valley

    Are Tech Giants the New Superpowers?

    By Peter Frankopan  March 26, 2019
    Excerpts

    Deep Time and an Uncertain Futureon the Orkney Islands

    By Laura Watts  March 25, 2019
    Totalitarianism

    Will China’s Ever-Growing Digital Firewall Wreck the Internet?

    By James Griffiths  March 22, 2019
    Feature

    Kristen Arnett’s Lifehacks: How to Get to Inbox Zero

    By Kristen Arnett  March 20, 2019
    Excerpts

    How Worried About Virtual Reality Should We Be?

    By Blake J. Harris  February 22, 2019
    Politics

    What Will Social Networks Look Like After the Internet?

    By Rochelle Spencer  February 13, 2019
    News and Culture

    Reading Feminist Futurism in the Age of the “Female” Virtual Assistant

    By Samantha Edmonds  January 3, 2019
    Excerpts

    Do the Sounds That Haunt You Have a Material Shape?

    By Kristen Gallerneaux  December 12, 2018
    Excerpts

    What It Was Like to Work With Julian Assange on Publishing Wikileaks

    By Alan Rusbridger  November 27, 2018
    Feature

    Literary Twitter’s Best Responses to Jonathan Franzen’s Rules for Writing

    By Jessie Gaynor  November 16, 2018
    Excerpts

    City Lights’ Elaine Katzenberger Has Seen It All in San Francisco

    By Cary McClelland and Elaine Katzenberger  October 26, 2018
    Excerpts

    Lev Grossman: Why We’ve Always Needed Fantastic Maps

    By Lev Grossman  October 22, 2018
    Excerpts

    What Mysteries and Medicine Have in Common

    By Arnold van de Laar  October 19, 2018
    Excerpts

    Autonomous Everything: How Algorithms Are Taking Over Our World

    By Bruce Schneier  October 1, 2018
    Essay

    Where, Exactly, is the Overlap Between Storytelling and Technology?

    By Tobias Carroll  September 24, 2018
    What to Read

    Lit Hub’s Fall 2018 Nonfiction Preview: Science & Technology

    By Emily Temple  September 7, 2018
    Excerpts

    When English and Computer Code Both Feel Like Foreign Languages

    By David Auerbach  August 31, 2018
    Excerpts

    Are Human Genes Changing As Fast As Culture and Technology?

    By Peter Ward  August 22, 2018
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