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The Technological Condition

How do our tools transform us?

Read the Editors’ Introduction
Robotics •
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Biotechnology •
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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

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 | Fall 2024

Fall 2024

  • Brian J. A. Boyd

A tech stack for “deep work”

From: What We Should Build

Brian J. A. Boyd

Essay | Fall 2024

Fall 2024

  • Dan Hopkins

Schools for building portfolios, not credentials

From: What We Should Build

Dan Hopkins

Essay | Fall 2024

Fall 2024

  • Samuel Matlack

Why the Progress Debate Goes Nowhere

You say “jetpacks,” I say “cabin in the woods,” let’s call the whole thing off.

From: What Calls to Build Miss

Samuel Matlack

Review | Summer 2024

Summer 2024

  • Charles T. Rubin

Virtual Reality Reboots History

The American dream has always meant living in our own fantasy worlds. Maybe it’s time to really go for it.

Charles T. Rubin

Essay | Summer 2024

Summer 2024

  • M. Anthony Mills

The Refs Are Working Us

Fact-checking used to be how journalists policed themselves. Now it’s how they police everyone else.

M. Anthony Mills

Essay | Summer 2024

Summer 2024

  • Brian J. A. Boyd

Why We Need Amistics for AI

Tech ethics needs a breakthrough. The Amish have it.

Brian J. A. Boyd

Essay | Spring 2024

Spring 2024

  • Meghan Houser

AI Is a Hall of Mirrors

LLMs are giving us a billion ripoffs of what we already are at a moment when we yearn for something new.

Meghan Houser

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