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The Technological Condition

How do our tools transform us?

Read the Editors’ Introduction
Robotics •
Internet •
Science Fiction •
Manual Competence •
Social Media •
Data Science •
Biotechnology •
History of Technology •
All

Essay | Spring 2025

Spring 2025

  • Charles C. Mann

A Spring in Every Kitchen

There is so little fresh surface water on Earth that if you collected it all into a ball, it would barely reach across New York City. Running water is a miracle — but the technology that brings it to us and takes the waste away is actually thousands of years old. The only barrier to staying hydrated today is political will.

From: How the System Works

Charles C. Mann

Essay | Winter 2025

Winter 2025

  • Nicholas Carr

The Tyranny of Now

There’s no time like the present to revisit the warning of forgotten media theorist Harold Innis: “Enormous improvements in communication have made understanding more difficult.”

Nicholas Carr

Essay | Winter 2025

Winter 2025

  • Charles C. Mann

Breakfast for Eight Billion

Fertilization, irrigation, genetics: the three practices that let us feed the whole world for the first time in history

From: How the System Works

Charles C. Mann

Essay | Winter 2025

Winter 2025

  • Charles C. Mann

We Live Like Royalty and Don’t Know It

Introducing “How the System Works,” a series on the hidden mechanisms that support modern life

From: How the System Works

Charles C. Mann

Essay | Winter 2024

Winter 2024

  • Nadia Asparouhova

Tech Strikes Back

“Accelerationism” is an overdue corrective to years of doom and gloom in Silicon Valley.

Nadia Asparouhova

Review | Winter 2023

Winter 2023

  • Nicholas Clairmont

Still Truckin’

As the zeitgeist declares the car dead, Americans keep driving.

Nicholas Clairmont

Essay | Fall 2022

Fall 2022

  • Thomas Hochman
  • Nate Hochman

A Nuclear Renaissance?

Stalled for decades, U.S. atomic power seems set for a comeback. Here’s what it’ll take to get it right this time.

Thomas Hochman and Nate Hochman

Special Series

Reality: A Post-Mortem

An essay series on why everyone but you is going insane
What Happened to Consensus Reality?
Reality Is Just a Game Now
How Stewart Made Tucker
What Was the Fact?
An America of Secrets
The New Control Society

Essay | Fall 2021

Fall 2021

  • Diana Schaub

The Invention of Slavery

Lincoln on whether technology makes us free

Diana Schaub

Essay | Fall 2021

Fall 2021

  • Nicholas Carr

How to Fix Social Media

A century ago, new media tech brought fake news, privacy woes, and censorship fights — and American democracy tamed it. It’s time for new legislation that revives the wisdom of that era.

From: Debating the “Public Interest” Online

Nicholas Carr

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