You Can’t Work the Robo-Ref
Baseball’s new automated ump means there’s no one left to blame for bad calls.
Baseball’s new automated ump means there’s no one left to blame for bad calls.
Paul Kingsnorth’s critique of technologized modernity is frustratingly broad. That doesn’t mean he’s wrong.
The new doped Olympics are not about what we can do but what tech titans can do to us.
In the 2020s, the weird soul of placeless America is being born on Discord servers.
Two new books explain how family life got eaten by digital life — and how to get it back.
The new cold war means a race with China over AI, biotech, and more. This poses a hard dilemma: win by embracing technologies that make us more like our enemy — or protect ourselves from tech dehumanization but become subjects to a totalitarian menace.
If you think the power system must run itself by now, you’re wrong. Behind every nicely toasted bagel is a vast network of generators, transformers, computers, wires — and, yes, people in backrooms sweating to make sure the juice flows exactly where, and when, it needs to go. What could possibly go wrong?
A new alliance between tech and the family?
A new alliance between tech and the family?
A new alliance between tech and the family?