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The Technological Condition

How do our tools transform us?

Read the Editors’ Introduction
Robotics •
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Essay | Spring 2019

Spring 2019

  • Naomi Schaefer Riley

Preserving Real-Life Childhood

A society that doesn’t tear itself apart online must raise kids who know life offline

From: The Ruin of the Digital Town Square

Naomi Schaefer Riley

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Essay | Spring 2019

Spring 2019

  • L. M. Sacasas

The Inescapable Town Square

Social media is a throwback, combining the worst of prior eras of communication

From: The Ruin of the Digital Town Square

L. M. Sacasas

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Review | Winter 2019

Winter 2019

  • James Poulos

Netflix and Nil

Why being online makes us nihilists

James Poulos

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Essay | Winter 2019

Winter 2019

  • Jon Askonas

How Tech Utopia Fostered Tyranny

Authoritarians’ love for digital technology is no fluke — it’s a product of Silicon Valley’s “smart” paternalism.

Jon Askonas

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Essay | Summer/Fall 2018

Summer/Fall 2018

  • Ian Marcus Corbin

Time to Log Off

On recognizing inhumane arrangements for what they are

Ian Marcus Corbin

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Essay | Summer/Fall 2018

Summer/Fall 2018

  • L. M. Sacasas

How Facebook Deforms Us

Strengthening our social fabric won’t be enough to fix the platform that’s fraying it

L. M. Sacasas

Essay | Spring 2018

Spring 2018

  • L. M. Sacasas

The Tech Backlash We Really Need

Silicon Valley will only be strengthened by its present scandals unless we ask deeper questions.

L. M. Sacasas

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Essay | Spring 2018

Spring 2018

  • Adam J. White

Google.gov

Amid growing calls to break up Google, are we missing a quiet alignment between “smart” government and the universal information engine?

Adam J. White

Essay | Winter 2016

Winter 2016

  • Alan Jacobs

Attending to Technology

Theses for Disputation

Alan Jacobs

Review | Spring 2015

Spring 2015

  • Rita Koganzon

The Politics of Digital Shaming

How outrage mobs polarize everything

Rita Koganzon

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