What the Escape Fantasies of Tech Billionaires Reveal About Our Apocalyptic Age

What the Escape Fantasies of Tech Billionaires Reveal About Our Apocalyptic Age

Douglas Rushkoff in Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | September 8, 2022

Why There’s More Nuance to China’s “Surveillance State” Than Most of Us Think

Why There’s More Nuance to China’s “Surveillance State” Than Most of Us Think

Josh Chin in Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | September 8, 2022

My Cyborg Future: Alice Wong on Prophetic High School Poetry and Processing Pain

My Cyborg Future: Alice Wong on Prophetic High School Poetry and Processing Pain

“Joints contracted, muscles atrophied, sinews snipped and stretched to the brink. Great art comes at a great price.”

By Alice Wong | September 7, 2022

How Can We Be Sure This “Futurist” Author Isn’t Just a Smart Machine?

How Can We Be Sure This “Futurist” Author Isn’t Just a Smart Machine?

Ross Dawson in Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | September 7, 2022

How Silicon Valley Conquered the Post-Cold War Consensus

How Silicon Valley Conquered the Post-Cold War Consensus

Alex Williams and Jeremy Gilbert on the Marriage of Big Tech and Big Finance

By Alex Williams and Jeremy Gilbert | September 1, 2022

Shut Up, Elon! Why Business Leaders Need to Get Off Social Media and Keep Their Views To Themselves

Shut Up, Elon! Why Business Leaders Need to Get Off Social Media and Keep Their Views To Themselves

Bill George in Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | September 1, 2022

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How Global Cities Can Best Adapt to the Coming Climate Crisis

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Gaia Vince on the Innovative Ways World Metropolises Can Improve Infrastructure and Welcome Climate Refugees

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How Big Pharma and Big Tech Collude To Exploit Basic Human Needs

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Adrienne Buller and Mathew Lawrence on the Monetization of Everyday Life

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How Technology Can Both Improve and Degrade Our Urban Environment

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John Lorinc on the Benefits and Pitfalls of “Smart Cities”

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Kristine Langley Mahler on How Online Rabbit Holes Fuel Creativity

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“The looking is the creeper behavior, but the processing of those digital finds can become the nonfiction writer’s justification.”

By Kristine Langley Mahler | August 22, 2022

Trump, Crypto, QAnon, and Other Things That Won’t Exist in 2042

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In Which Andrew Keen Attempts to Look Into the Future

By Andrew Keen | August 19, 2022

The Tech Industry Isn’t a Meritocracy: Why All Start-Up Boards Should Have More Women and People of Color

The Tech Industry Isn’t a Meritocracy: Why All Start-Up Boards Should Have More Women and People of Color

Brad Feld in Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | August 12, 2022

Is This Real Life? Do We Live in a Computer Simulation or Not?

Is This Real Life? Do We Live in a Computer Simulation or Not?

Sabine Hossenfelder Addresses a Burning Question (For Some)

By Sabine Hossenfelder | August 11, 2022

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