• Technology

    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
    What Comes Next

    Against Technocracy: The Year Software Finally Ate the World

    By Andrew Keen  May 28, 2020
    What Comes Next

    Choosing a Return to Attention

    By Casey Schwartz  May 28, 2020
    Capitalism

    Even Americans Who Hate Amazon Can’t Seem to Live Without It

    By Brian Dumaine  May 19, 2020
    Criticism

    The Internet Novel Is As Chaotic As Your Twitter Feed

    By Maddie Crum  May 1, 2020
    The Hub

    Now you can use your favorite indie bookstore as your Zoom background.

    By Julia Hass  April 29, 2020
    The Hub

    Even our UFO content is relevant in 2020.

    By Aaron Robertson  April 28, 2020
    Silicon Valley

    Wall Street’s Problem is Silicon Valley’s Too

    By Wendy Liu  April 27, 2020
    Rekindled

    Rekindled: Gemma Milne in Conversation With Heather Parry

    By The Virtual Book Channel  April 22, 2020
    Longevity

    Can You Bring a Tiny Robot Into an Exclusive Austrian Sanatorium?

    By Frédéric Beigbeder  April 16, 2020
    Capitalism

    Jenny Odell and Wendy Liu on Liberating Ourselves From Usefulness

    By Jenny Odell  April 13, 2020
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