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What Are We Saying When We Call<br> an Algorithm 'Creative'?

What Are We Saying When We Call
an Algorithm 'Creative'?

Locating Randomness and Agency in The Code

By Marcus du Sautoy | April 17, 2019

Heike Geissler's Grim Account of<br> the Amazon Workplace

Heike Geissler's Grim Account of
the Amazon Workplace

Inside the Belly of a Very Contemporary Beast

By Monika Zaleska | April 16, 2019

How to Unsettle People by<br> Doing Nothing

How to Unsettle People by
Doing Nothing

Jenny Odell: In Celebration of a Small Rebellion

By Jenny Odell | April 11, 2019

How the Algorithm Rewards Extremism

How the Algorithm Rewards Extremism

Clive Thompson on Big Tech, the Internet, and the Mess We're In

By Clive Thompson | March 28, 2019

Why the Robot Takeover Isn't Coming Any Time Soon

Why the Robot Takeover Isn't Coming Any Time Soon

Without Platonic Dialectics, They Can't Really Understand Language

By Lena Andersson | March 27, 2019

Are Tech Giants the New Superpowers?

Are Tech Giants the New Superpowers?

On China, Trade, and the Shifting Locations of Power

By Peter Frankopan | March 26, 2019

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Deep Time and an Uncertain Futureon the Orkney Islands

By Laura Watts | March 25, 2019

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

By James Griffiths | March 22, 2019

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

By Kristen Arnett | March 20, 2019

How Worried About Virtual Reality Should We Be?

How Worried About Virtual Reality Should We Be?

Oh Cool, Fully Immersive Digital Platforms for Everyone!

By Blake J. Harris | February 22, 2019

What Will Social Networks Look Like After the Internet?

What Will Social Networks Look Like After the Internet?

An Afrofuturistic Vision of Offline Communities

By Rochelle Spencer | February 13, 2019

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

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

Images of Empowerment in the Literary Cyborg

By Samantha Edmonds | January 3, 2019

Do the Sounds That Haunt You Have a Material Shape?

Do the Sounds That Haunt You Have a Material Shape?

On the Weird Physical History of Media and Information

By Kristen Gallerneaux | December 12, 2018

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

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

The Former Editor of The Guardian on a Tumultuous Time at the Paper

By Alan Rusbridger | November 27, 2018

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

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

"He's won. Franzen's won."

By Jessie Gaynor | November 16, 2018

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

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

From Boom to Bust and Boom Again...

By Cary McClelland and Elaine Katzenberger | October 26, 2018

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