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The Technological Condition

How do our tools transform us?

Read the Editors’ Introduction
Robotics •
Internet •
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Manual Competence •
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Data Science •
Biotechnology •
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Review | Summer 2021

Summer 2021

  • William Hasselberger

Can Machines Have Common Sense?

“Deep learning” hype misses a basic feature of human intelligence.

From: Available in Audio

William Hasselberger

Essay | Winter 2021

Winter 2021

  • M. Anthony Mills

The Case Against “STEM”

How blurring the line between science and technology puts both at risk

M. Anthony Mills

Essay | Winter 2020

Winter 2020

  • L. M. Sacasas

The Analog City and the Digital City

How online life breaks the old political order

From: Available in Audio

L. M. Sacasas

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Essay | Winter 2020

Winter 2020

  • M. Anthony Mills
  • Mark P. Mills

The Science Before the War

How the technological feats of World War II grew out of curiosity-driven research

M. Anthony Mills and Mark P. Mills

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Essay | Winter 2020

Winter 2020

  • Algis Valiunas

Turing and the Uncomputable

On logic come to life

Algis Valiunas

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Review | Fall 2019

Fall 2019

  • Geoff Shullenberger

We All Wear Tinfoil Hats Now

How fears of mind control went from paranoid delusion to conventional wisdom

Geoff Shullenberger

Review | Fall 2019

Fall 2019

  • Charles T. Rubin

The Ancients’ Tech Anxiety

On the shallowness of reading mythology as sci-fi

Charles T. Rubin

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Essay | Summer 2019

Summer 2019

  • Laurence Scott

In Search of Lost Time on YouTube

How the platform takes us to places where we ache to go again

Laurence Scott

Essay | Spring 2019

Spring 2019

  • James Poulos

Imagine All the People

How the fantasies of the TV era created the disaster of social media

From: The Ruin of the Digital Town Square

James Poulos

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Essay | Winter 2019

Winter 2019

  • Algis Valiunas

The Most Dangerous Possible German

On the ambiguous legacy of Werner Heisenberg, quantum genius and would-be inventor of the Nazi A-bomb

Algis Valiunas

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