Long before Amazon, Twitter and Facebook, a company called Simulmatics Corporation sought to predict and control human behaviour […]
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If we are lucky in our lives, we come across artists who are always paying attention, whose vibrant […]
The first time I knew something was wrong was at the end of law school. It was the […]
If you watch one film about technology this year, make it this one. The Social Dilemma (Netflix) features […]
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Earlier this year, I read Breasts and Eggs, a feminist novel by the author Mieko Kawakami. It took […]
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I’ve spent most of my adult life chasing a kind of certainty : the belief that people are […]
It’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism. This is the opening […]
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A friend recently gave me Arthur C. Clarke’s novel The City and the Stars. On the first page, […]
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For the last few months, I’ve been working on a hobby project to recreate, loosely speaking, the suburb […]
In 1985, Neil Postman wrote a book called Amusing Ourselves to Death. In it, he warned that unless […]
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