Print Preview: Issue #2 | Spring 2019
Our 2nd issue is off to the printer. Here’s a sneak peek of what’s inside.
Category: Publishing
Q&A with David Sax, Author of The Revenge of Analog
Our own Art Keller chats with author David Sax about the themes in his book The Revenge of Analog.
Our First Print Issue
The Technoskeptic arrives in print!
Literary Twitter: Marketing, Shaming, & Censorship in the World of Publishing
Twitter has become deeply integrated into the literary world, creating a vastly different dynamic between authors and readers.
America Should Send Amazon Packing
Amazon has destroyed businesses, mistreated employees, lowered wages, manipulated markets, and virtually censored books. Now they want a giant handout.
Zines Keep it Real, Defying Digital Trends
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.
A Message From the Publisher
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.
Podcast #8: Tim Wu On Attention and Communications Networks
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.
