"Recent years have seen the democratic spirit advancing at the expense of the meritocratic. Here’s why that’s a problem."

>"If we manage to find intelligent life somewhere in the cosmos, then, strange as it may be, at least it will provide evidence that we are not alone in bearing the burden of _...Read More_

>"How algorithmic feeds conflate identity with diagnosis"

>"In an attempt to win votes, Denmark’s major parties have mainstreamed far-right ideas and stoked a reactionary political climate in the country. The result: right-wing extremists have been emboldened to terrorize minorities and attack _...Read More_

>"Noema recently sat down with Joseph Stiglitz and Ray Dalio to discuss a new inequality-reducing opportunity presented by the massive government _...Read More_

"In the United States, recovery from the financial crisis a decade ago has continued on as one of the longest economic expansions in American history. Unemployment is at a 50-year low. Fueled by this momentum, while ignoring the intense _...Read More_

"People pay a premium for tracking technologies that get imposed unwillingly on others".

"On social media there is a context collapse between the living and the dead"

"The emerging dream of an internet where every interaction is a financial transaction"

"With its cadres of investment bankers, institutional investors, massive international flows of cash and commodities and its wealth of arcane instruments, measures, and strategies, the world of finance _...Read More_

>"On algorithmic culture and the creation of coercive “fun”"

Artists can use artificial intelligence as a creative tool to transmit themselves from the afterlife.

>"The clock is a useful social tool, but it is also deeply political. It benefits some, marginalizes others and blinds us from a true understanding of our own bodies and the world around us."

"Social media companies have failed to legitimate their public power because they have responded to such public problems like engineers.”