Tag: internet

• What Was the Internet? – Boston Review

  August 14, 2026

  As AI overtakes the web, five writers reflect on how far it’s fallen and what comes next. https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/what-was-the-internet/#wellmon more ›

• The Boring Internet

  May 22, 2026

  The internet you grew up on isn’t dying. A commercial veneer glued on top of it is. A visual essay about what actually persists. https://www.terrygodier.com/the-boring-internet more ›

• Opinion | After Mythos, the Future of the Internet Is At a Crossroads – The New York Times

  April 22, 2026

  In the race to patch up cybersecurity holes found by the newest A.I. models, we risk leaving too many people to fend for themselves. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/opinion/mythos-open-souce-internet.html more ›

• The Goon Squad, by Daniel Kolitz

  October 23, 2025

  Loneliness, porn’s next frontier, and the dream of endless masturbation https://harpers.org/archive/2025/11/the-goon-squad-daniel-kolitz-porn-masturbation-loneliness/ more ›

• Net gains as language barriers fall in global trade

  September 12, 2025

  Language matters more than many may think when it comes to global trade. When trading partners use similar languages, trade is likely to be 72 percent higher on an average than when trading partners… more ›

• Anonymity is dead and we’re all content now | The Verge

  September 10, 2025

  The rise of viral videos of unremarkable people — along with their near-immediate identification — means you can’t assume you’re anonymous in public. https://share.google/Zla2Y5GiZzvOTKd2L more ›

• Against Compression

  July 12, 2025

  Let me not boil it down for you. I rarely gave a thought to that job after leaving it, but I’ve been thinking about it a lot recently. It’s hard… more ›

• Colombia seizes first unmanned narco-submarine with Starlink antenna

  July 7, 2025

  The Colombian navy on Wednesday seized its first unmanned narco-submarine, equipped with a Starlink antenna, off the Caribbean coast. No drugs were found, but officials and regional security sources suspect… more ›

• The Internet’s New Favorite Philosopher

  June 19, 2025

  Byung-Chul Han, in treatises such as “The Burnout Society” and his latest, “The Crisis of Narration,” diagnoses the frenetic aimlessness of the digital age. https://www.newyorker.com/culture/infinite-scroll/the-internets-new-favorite-philosopher more ›

• Protocols, Not Platforms: A Technological Approach to Free Speech

  March 5, 2025

  After a decade or so of the general sentiment being in favor of the internet and social media as a way to enable more speech and improve the marketplace of… more ›