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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 | 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

Essay | Winter 2023

Winter 2023

  • Clare Coffey

How to Make Friends

Fighting the system may take a while. Why not go to a bar?

From: Phoneless, Carless, Friendless

Clare Coffey

Essay | Winter 2023

Winter 2023

  • Clare Coffey

Driven Apart

Contrary to the myth of the open road, in real adulthood we go somewhere and get there slow.

From: Phoneless, Carless, Friendless

Clare Coffey

Essay | Winter 2023

Winter 2023

  • Clare Coffey

The Joy of Losing Your Phone

App life has freed us from the kindness of strangers. Is it any wonder we feel so alone?

From: Phoneless, Carless, Friendless

Clare Coffey

Triptych | Winter 2023

Winter 2023

Phoneless, Carless, Friendless

The Joy of Losing Your Phone
Driven Apart
How to Make Friends

Review | Winter 2023

Winter 2023

  • Joel Cuthbertson

When the Machine Opts In to You

The self-help response to oppressive ways of living only plays into the problem.

Joel Cuthbertson

Review | Winter 2023

Winter 2023

  • Nicholas Clairmont

Still Truckin’

As the zeitgeist declares the car dead, Americans keep driving.

Nicholas Clairmont

Essay | Fall 2022

Fall 2022

  • Charles T. Rubin

Middle Seat to the Moon

How to keep the thrill alive once billionaires make space travel routine

Charles T. Rubin

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