Escaping Screens: A Tech-Free Travel Quest, Part II
A stranded American tourist shares the story of a six-month screen-free quest through India and Nepal just as the coronavirus explodes. Part II.
A stranded American tourist shares the story of a six-month screen-free quest through India and Nepal just as the coronavirus explodes. Part II.
An American tourist stranded in India shares his story: six months traveling without a screen, only to pick one up again just in time for the global meltdown.
With little fanfare, technologies that manipulate brain activity (both external and implanted) pose dangers to health, identity, and society, even as they achieve medical successes.
Walter Mattli reveals the opaque world of high-speed trading, and its danger to finance and the regulatory power of governments.
Brett Frischmann and Evan Selinger warn that real freedom of will and human agency will require the ability to be “off.”
Excerpts of E. M. Forster’s 1909 futuristic dystopia The Machine Stops
Compared to 1984 or Brave New World, E. M. Forster’s 1909 futuristic novella The Machine Stops was, in some ways, the most eerily accurate prediction of our current technological milieu.
Our fourth print issue—covering issues of identity, censorship, Internet infrastructure and more—is about to ship nationally.
Our third print issue is about to ship nationally.
A review of tech and social critic Douglas Rushkoff’s latest book, Team Human.