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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 •
All

Essay | Summer 2023

Summer 2023

  • Robert Mariani

The Dead Internet to Come

Our chatbot future is a lonely place right out of a paranoid delusion.

From: They’re Here…

Robert Mariani

Symposium | Summer 2023

Summer 2023

They’re Here…

The AI moment has arrived.
Why This AI Moment May Be the Real Deal
B.S. Jobs and the Coming Crisis of Meaning
AI Can’t Beat Stupid
The Dead Internet to Come
Why I Fired My AI Agent
How the State Built This AI Moment
The Speech of the Dead
Sam Altman Doesn’t Want To Be Your AI King

Essay | Summer 2023

Summer 2023

  • Ari Schulman

Why This AI Moment May Be the Real Deal

This time, believe the hype.

From: They’re Here…

Ari Schulman

Reconsideration | Spring 2023

Spring 2023

  • David Polansky

Human Resources

Why Soylent Green was more prophetic than it seems

David Polansky

Review | Spring 2023

Spring 2023

  • Bonnie Kristian

Digital Appeasement

“Meganets,” the melodramatic new excuse for giving up against digital oppression without a fight

Bonnie Kristian

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 | Spring 2023

Spring 2023

  • Joseph Joyce

The Demise of the Garage Inventor

How Hollywood forgot the tinkering dad

Joseph Joyce

Essay | Spring 2023

Spring 2023

  • Jon Askonas

What Was the Fact?

Here lies a beloved friend of social harmony (ca. 1500–2000). It was nice while it lasted.

From: Reality: A Post-Mortem

Jon Askonas

Essay | Spring 2023

Spring 2023

  • Tara Isabella Burton

Rational Magic

Why a Silicon Valley culture that was once obsessed with reason is going woo

Tara Isabella Burton

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