Podcast #36: Jerry Mander
Author and activist Jerry Mander reflects on a long life of technoskepticism and how it relates to the current global moment.
Category: Society
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.
Escaping Screens: A Tech-Free Travel Quest, Part I
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.
Podcast #35: Ainissa Ramirez
Science evangelist Ainissa Ramirez takes a look at how major technologies have shaped human culture—both intentionally and not.
Now’s the Time to Go Screen-Free
Tired of Zoom calls and virtual meet-ups? Just turn everything off.
Book Review: Darkness By Design
Walter Mattli reveals the opaque world of high-speed trading, and its danger to finance and the regulatory power of governments.
Book Review: Re-Engineering Humanity
Brett Frischmann and Evan Selinger warn that real freedom of will and human agency will require the ability to be “off.”
WeChat: From Medium to Mediator
China’s omnipresent app regulates much of society. Will it be a blueprint or cautionary tale?
E. M. Forster’s The Machine Stops (excerpts)
Excerpts of E. M. Forster’s 1909 futuristic dystopia The Machine Stops
The Prescience of E. M. Forster
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.