The gap between technotopia and dystopia are never far apart
Mustafa Suleyman’s new book is a rousing call-to-arms for humanity
Technology
Friday
Tuesday
My month using a tablet instead of a smartphone
When you’re using a 14.5” device, you can’t doomscroll; every action is far more purposeful
Saturday
The advent of AI-piloted planes
Bringing AI into the fold offers numerous benefits to the modern warfighter, but also raises important questions
Saturday
The new corporatism that’s killing capitalism
Big business is getting bigger. That’s bad news for all of us
Tuesday
Nothing makes technology transparent again
The London-based company has applied the same tricks as the iMac
Sunday
What museums can learn from contemporary technology
The National Gallery of Art has quietly but steadily undergone a major culture shift
Wednesday
Biden will never let Silicon Valley fail
The collapse of SVB prompts action but the Fed hurting the working class less so
Monday
The unfortunate ubiquity of smartphones
We who refuse to spend our days caressing the wretched rectangle are fast being reduced to second-class citizenhood
Wednesday
M3GAN is a biting satire of screen-obsessed parenting
This one deserved better than the January chopping block
Tuesday
The other cancel culture
Like the cancel culture of the woke, the cancel culture of friendship is made possible by technology
Friday
Why we should stop worrying and learn to love AI
Think of it as ‘augmented intelligence,’ and don’t listen to the doomsayers
Tuesday
America’s chip war with China
The US is working to limit China’s access to semiconductors — but is that a good idea?
Monday
Sinking into the pixels
We’re All Going to the World’s Fair is an important film about the internet
From modernism to totalitarianism
Postmodern man is characterized by an obsession with technique and technology
Thursday
We are failing to curate the present
If we exist everywhere online, do we exist anywhere at all?
Thursday
How science fiction novels read the future
Science fiction can prepare us for what happens next
How bad could a Russian cyberattack be?
Containing the attack is the problem
Monday
Downloading God in the App Store
Is the concept of manna from Heaven really so different than ordering from Uber Eats or Postmates?
Thursday
Our gadgets are misleading us
Modern gadgets are less and less our servants and more and more our masters
Friday
Reality is enough without Zuckerberg’s metaverse
Our own Dr. Frankenstein wants to innovate the world away — again
