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The Technological Condition

How do our tools transform us?

Read the Editors’ Introduction
Robotics •
Internet •
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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

  • Garth Brown

Can You Solve a Lifestyle Epidemic Without Lifestyle Gurus?

When you’ve got a “diseases of civilization” crisis, you’re gonna get some weirdos.

Garth Brown

Essay | Winter 2025

Winter 2025

  • Jon Askonas

The New Control Society

The gatekeepers are dying. Why is everything so mid?

From: Reality: A Post-Mortem

Jon Askonas

Review | Summer 2023

Summer 2023

  • Tara Isabella Burton

Clicks of Desire

How the Internet obeys you

Tara Isabella Burton

Essay | Spring 2023

Spring 2023

  • James R. Ostrowski

Shallowfakes

The danger of exaggerating the AI disinfo threat

James R. Ostrowski

Essay | Spring 2023

Spring 2023

  • Katherine Dee

Selling the Drama

A eulogy for “humdog,” the poster who led a tech backlash in the days of dial-up

Katherine Dee

Essay | Fall 2022

Fall 2022

  • Antón Barba-Kay

Kitty Eats the Internet

Cat memes fill a gaping void in our online lives.

Antón Barba-Kay

Essay | Summer 2022

Summer 2022

  • Jon Askonas

How Stewart Made Tucker

A world of authentic, post-spin journalism: The dream Jon Stewart spent a decade making real is now America’s waking nightmare. What did he get so wrong?

From: Reality: A Post-Mortem

Jon Askonas

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 | Spring 2022

Spring 2022

  • Kit Wilson

Reading Ourselves to Death

This essay is not real.

From: Saving the Real

Kit Wilson

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