Print Preview: Issue #2 | Spring 2019
Our 2nd issue is off to the printer. Here’s a sneak peek of what’s inside.
Our 2nd issue is off to the printer. Here’s a sneak peek of what’s inside.
Our own Art Keller chats with author David Sax about the themes in his book The Revenge of Analog.
The Technoskeptic arrives in print!
Twitter has become deeply integrated into the literary world, creating a vastly different dynamic between authors and readers.
Amazon has destroyed businesses, mistreated employees, lowered wages, manipulated markets, and virtually censored books. Now they want a giant handout.
The culture of zines, those xeroxed, do-it-yourself pamphlets, goes back decades. Instead of dying with the Internet, it’s as strong as ever.
Happy birthday us! This month marks one year since we moved to weekly updates. Publisher Mo Lotman shares a few thoughts about The Technoskeptic and the stakes of its mission.
Tim Wu is a renowned scholar on our communications networks, having coined the phrase “net neutrality” and written extensively on the subject both inside and outside of government and academia, including the White House and Columbia University. His latest book, The Attention Merchants, is a history of advertising, and it’s not pretty. He spoke with us about our declining private spheres, the current state of the Internet, and the effects of what he calls The Cycle, as new communications technologies inevitably move from open to closed.