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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 •
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Essay | Fall 2024

Fall 2024

  • Dan Hopkins

Schools for building portfolios, not credentials

From: What We Should Build

Dan Hopkins

Essay | Winter 2024

Winter 2024

  • Clare Coffey

Things Used to Work in This Country

An appliance used to be a machine. Now it’s a bureaucracy.

Clare Coffey

Essay | Spring 2023

Spring 2023

  • Joseph Joyce

The Demise of the Garage Inventor

How Hollywood forgot the tinkering dad

Joseph Joyce

Essay | Fall 2022

Fall 2022

  • Nat Watkins

The Secret Life of Leftovers

Cheese, curry, beer: We can thank our ancestors who put food scraps to creative use. What we’re leaving our children is garbage.

Nat Watkins

Review | Fall 2015

Fall 2015

  • Diana Schaub

Attention Deficit

Diana Schaub

Essay | Winter 2015

Winter 2015

  • Matthew B. Crawford

Virtual Reality as Moral Ideal

Why we must learn to live in a world that resists our will

Matthew B. Crawford

Review | Summer/Fall 2014

Summer/Fall 2014

  • Evan Selinger
  • Jathan Sadowski

The Tools of Their Tools

The danger of living life on autopilot

Evan Selinger and Jathan Sadowski

Correspondence | Fall 2006

Fall 2006

The Beginning of Life; An Unbalanced Diagnosis; The Enhancement Wars; Three Cheers for Craftsmanship

Essay | Summer 2006

Summer 2006

  • Matthew B. Crawford

Shop Class as Soulcraft

The case for the manual trades

Matthew B. Crawford

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