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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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Review | Summer 2019

Summer 2019

  • Jon Askonas

All Activities Monitored

How military drone technology is quietly creeping into policing, business, and everyday life

Jon Askonas

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Essay | Spring 2019

Spring 2019

  • Yoni Wilkenfeld

Can Chess Survive Artificial Intelligence?

Computers are taking the error out of human chess — and the adventure.

Yoni Wilkenfeld

Essay | Spring 2019

Spring 2019

  • Tess Doezema

Why Science Can’t Break the GMO Stalemate

The debate won’t be settled technocratically because it’s about technocracy itself.

Tess Doezema

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Essay | Spring 2019

Spring 2019

  • Alan Jacobs

After Technopoly

Technocratic solutionism is dying. To replace it, we must learn again the creation and reception of myth.

Alan Jacobs

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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

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Essay | Spring 2019

Spring 2019

  • Naomi Schaefer Riley

Preserving Real-Life Childhood

A society that doesn’t tear itself apart online must raise kids who know life offline

From: The Ruin of the Digital Town Square

Naomi Schaefer Riley

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Essay | Spring 2019

Spring 2019

  • Ashley May

Do You Know Who Your ‘Friends’ Are?

Making digital conversations humane will require defining our online relationships

From: The Ruin of the Digital Town Square

Ashley May

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Essay | Spring 2019

Spring 2019

  • Andy Smarick

The Emergent Order of Twitter

Why the platform should be fixed from the bottom up, not the top down

From: The Ruin of the Digital Town Square

Andy Smarick

Essay | Spring 2019

Spring 2019

  • Caitrin Keiper

Making Friends of Trolls

On finding familiar faces behind the black mirror

From: The Ruin of the Digital Town Square

Caitrin Keiper

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Essay | Spring 2019

Spring 2019

  • L. M. Sacasas

The Inescapable Town Square

Social media is a throwback, combining the worst of prior eras of communication

From: The Ruin of the Digital Town Square

L. M. Sacasas

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