Tag: books

• Analogia: The Emergence of Technology Beyond Programmable Control

  December 29, 2020

  In Analogia, technology historian George Dyson presents a startling look back at the analog age and life before the digital revolution―and an unsettling vision of what comes next. In 1716, the… more ›

• Tasting Notes with Robin Sloan

  December 20, 2020

  I’m sitting on a Zoom with the best-selling fiction writer Robin Sloan, author of Mr. Penumbra’s 24 Hour Bookstore and Sourdough. He opens his notes app, nvALT, and the word… more ›

• “The machine stops” by E. M. Forster

  December 15, 2020

  “The Machine Stops” is a science fiction short story (12,300 words) by E. M. Forster. After initial publication in The Oxford and Cambridge Review (November 1909), the story was republished in Forster’s The Eternal Moment and… more ›

• Why Obama Fears for Our Democracy

  November 22, 2020

  In an exclusive interview, the former president identifies the greatest threats to the American experiment, explains why he’s still hopeful, and opens up about his new book. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/11/why-obama-fears-for-our-democracy/617087/ more ›

• WeWork Didn’t Blow Up Without Help

  October 25, 2020

  Even as WeWork’s IPO collapsed last fall and its then-CEO Adam Neumann was left walking the streets of New York barefoot, fighting for his job, the company still had a… more ›

• Managing a News Operation the Netflix Way

  September 29, 2020

  I am haunted by my past mistakes. My managerial ones. Especially as I just finished reading “No Rules Rules” written by Netflix CEO Reed Hastings and INSEAD professor Erin Meyer.… more ›

• Tom Burgis: ‘The rise of kleptocrats fueled by destablising the truth on social media

  September 20, 2020

  How can African nations stop the looting of their natural wealth by rogue politicians and an international band of financial predators? How do you join the dots between illegal gold-mining… more ›

• How to Destroy ‘Surveillance Capitalism’ – Cory Doctorow

  August 31, 2020

  Editor’s Note: Surveillance capitalism is everywhere. But it’s not the result of some wrong turn or a rogue abuse of corporate power — it’s the system working as intended. This… more ›

• Hour One raises $5M Seed to generate AI-driven synthetic characters from real humans

  August 18, 2020

  All of the people pictured above are real, but what you are seeing are synthetically-generated versions of their real selves. And they can be programmed to say anything. https://techcrunch.com/2020/08/17/hour-one-raises-5m-seed-to-generate-ai-driven-synthetic-characters-from-real-humans/ more ›

• 130 Degrees

  August 8, 2020

  So now we have some sense of what it’s like: a full-on global-scale crisis, one that disrupts everything. Normal life—shopping for food, holding a wedding, going to work, seeing your… more ›