I can’t exactly recall when I watched my last movie on VHS, but the cassette tape once defined my childhood. For kids of the 1980s and 1990s, videotapes were currency—expensive objects that you treasured, rewound, and wore out.
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Just ask my underling who begs to work harder.
It was the summer of 2022 in Nallagandla, Hyderabad, India, and I was sitting in a public boarding school classroom. The ceiling fan was running at medium speed.
To paraphrase the great Megadeth, peace sells — but who’s renting?
What happens to your online selfhood when you die?
The power of AI to transform numerous fields of our society is not in question. How it will transform those fields is what the debate is all about.
Maybe information itself is more pernicious than the dis- or mis- varieties. The glut of facts can feel—in their sheer impenetrable volume—anxious-making, anomic, and numbing
Recently at a writer’s conference—AWP in Seattle, for those who are curious—I bumped into a colleague I knew […]