So You’ve Decided To Carry Your Brain Around
Christine Rosen’s The Extinction of Experience looks at how two decades of digital tech have alienated us from our bodies and the world
Christine Rosen’s The Extinction of Experience looks at how two decades of digital tech have alienated us from our bodies and the world
There’s no time like the present to revisit the warning of forgotten media theorist Harold Innis: “Enormous improvements in communication have made understanding more difficult.”
Fact-checking used to be how journalists policed themselves. Now it’s how they police everyone else.
“Meganets,” the melodramatic new excuse for giving up against digital oppression without a fight
A eulogy for “humdog,” the poster who led a tech backlash in the days of dial-up
Why a Silicon Valley culture that was once obsessed with reason is going woo
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