• Technology

    Social Media

    How Ghost Stories Spread in the Era of Social Media

    By Sarah Rose Cavanagh  November 4, 2019
    Space!

    If You Think There’s a Lot of Trash on Earth, Just Go to Outer Space

    By Alice Gorman  October 28, 2019
    Keen On

    Kickstarter Cofounder Yancey Strickler on the Unintended Consequences of the Sharing Economy

    By Keen On  October 25, 2019
    Transhumanism

    Early Visions of Transhumanism Were… Wild

    By Philip Ball  October 24, 2019
    Tourism

    The Fraught History (and Inevitable Future) of Space Tourism

    By Peter Ward  October 23, 2019
    Keen On

    Tiffany Shlain on How Unplugging One Day a Week Can Save Society

    By Keen On  October 18, 2019
    Keen On

    Scott Galloway: Tech Companies Should Be Broken Up

    By Keen On  October 11, 2019
    The Internet

    The Inbox: A Scattered, Ad-Ridden Archive of Our Lives

    By Randy Malamud  October 9, 2019
    AI

    Can Fiction Introduce Empathy Into AI? Do We Want It To?

    By Flynn Coleman  October 3, 2019
    Transhumanism

    Jeanette Winterson and Mark O’Connell on the Future of Humanity in a Tech-Dominated World

    By Literary Hub  October 1, 2019
    Keen On

    Who Can We Trust? Maria Ressa on the Future of Gatekeeping

    By Keen On  September 27, 2019
    Keen On

    Is the Age of Automation the New Industrial Revolution?

    By Keen On  September 20, 2019
    The Internet

    What Would Happen If the World Lost the Internet?

    By Mike Pearl  September 18, 2019
    Genetics

    Will It Ever Be Ethical for Athletes to Edit Their Genes?

    By Françoise Baylis  September 16, 2019
    The Hub

    The Problem(s) with Goodreads.

    By Jonny Diamond  September 5, 2019
    Reading

    Who Has Time to Read? And Where? And on What?

    By Leah Price  September 5, 2019
    The Hub

    A robot read 3.5 million books to find we describe women by appearance, and men by virtue.

    By Jonny Diamond  August 28, 2019
    Artificial Intelligence

    If Planet Death Doesn’t Get Us, an AI Superintelligence Most Certainly Will

    By Bryan Walsh  August 26, 2019
    Keen On

    Can Digital Activism Solve the Information Crisis?

    By Keen On  August 23, 2019
    Fall 2019 Nonfiction Preview

    Lit Hub’s Fall 2019 Nonfiction Preview: Technology

    By Literary Hub  August 23, 2019
    The Hub

    Cruel calculator will tell you how many extra books you could read a year if you quit social media.

    By Jessie Gaynor  August 9, 2019
    Capitalism

    False Freedom: Sharing the Scraps from the Perilous Gig Economy

    By Steven Greenhouse  August 7, 2019
    Politics

    The Utopian Dream and Surveillance Nightmare of Electronic Money

    By Finn Brunton  August 1, 2019
    The Moon

    On the Human Spaceflight Program That Made Apollo Possible

    By James Donovan  July 19, 2019
    Archaeology

    How Space Technology is Revolutionizing Archaeology

    By Sarah Parcak  July 16, 2019
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