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The Technological Condition

How do our tools transform us?

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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

Review | Summer 2022

Summer 2022

  • David Polansky

The Supergenius at the End of the World

In Neal Stephenson’s sci-fi, democracy is an obstacle to Muskian great men saving us all.

David Polansky

Review | Spring 2022

Spring 2022

  • Alan Rome

Sad Trek

How an exhausted liberalism killed sci-fi’s sunniest franchise

Alan Rome

Essay | Winter 2022

Winter 2022

  • Tristan Abbey

StarCraft as Statecraft

It’s time for defense strategy to update its favorite gaming metaphors.

Tristan Abbey

Review | Summer 2021

Summer 2021

  • Phil Christman

Enough About “We”

When sci-fi needs a little less sci and a little more fi

Phil Christman

Essay | Winter 2021

Winter 2021

  • Alan Jacobs

From Tech Critique to Ways of Living

Neil Postman was right. So what?

Alan Jacobs

Review | Fall 2020

Fall 2020

  • Tara Isabella Burton

Saving Ourselves

Real love as rebellion in TV’s Brave New World

Tara Isabella Burton

Special Series

Hawthorne: Science, Progress, and Human Nature

Nathaniel Hawthorne and the Spirit of Science
Wasting the Water of Life
Artful by Nature
From Hearth-Fires to Hell-Fires
The Last Temptation of Science
A Far Other Butterfly
The Possibility of Progress
Love Conquers All
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Review | Winter 2020

Winter 2020

  • Stefan Beck

Do We Want Dystopia?

On nightmare tech as the fulfillment of warped desire

From: Available in Audio

Stefan Beck

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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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