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The Technological Condition

How do our tools transform us?

Read the Editors’ Introduction
Robotics •
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Review | Winter 2022

Winter 2022

  • Jeffrey Bilbro

How Tech Reform Diminishes Us

Earnest critics of social media are repeating the dehumanizing mistakes that got us here.

Jeffrey Bilbro

Essay | Fall 2021

Fall 2021

  • Nicholas Carr

How to Fix Social Media

A century ago, new media tech brought fake news, privacy woes, and censorship fights — and American democracy tamed it. It’s time for new legislation that revives the wisdom of that era.

From: Debating the “Public Interest” Online

Nicholas Carr

Essay | Summer 2021

Summer 2021

  • Kent Anhari

Bot Anxiety

What happens to public discourse when everyone fails the Turing Test?

Kent Anhari

Essay | Summer 2021

Summer 2021

  • Oliver Traldi

Libidinal Liberalism

Does banning bad behavior just make it worse?

Oliver Traldi

Essay | Spring 2021

Spring 2021

  • Adam Elkus

Welcoming Our New Robot Overlords

How warnings of AI doom gave way to primal fear of primates posting

From: Available in Audio

Adam Elkus

Essay | Fall 2020

Fall 2020

  • Laurence Scott

Gratuitous Display

The American diner and the viral tip

Laurence Scott

Essay | Fall 2020

Fall 2020

  • Geoff Shullenberger

The New Net Delusion

How 2010’s digital utopians became 2020’s tech prophets of doom

Geoff Shullenberger

Essay | Winter 2020

Winter 2020

  • L. M. Sacasas

The Analog City and the Digital City

How online life breaks the old political order

From: Available in Audio

L. M. Sacasas

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Essay | Winter 2020

Winter 2020

  • Tara Isabella Burton

Eat Me, Drink Me, Like Me

Is love in the attention economy unreal?

From: Available in Audio

Tara Isabella Burton

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Review | Winter 2020

Winter 2020

  • Michael M. Rosen

Why We Choose Surveillance Capitalism

Americans don’t care about privacy as much as they say.

Michael M. Rosen

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