"Public comment periods at school board meetings felt endless. Parents’ angers — over masking, over politics, over the “LGBTQ agenda” fed off each other."

At the time, Ye was between two of the most personal projects of his career. His dialogue with Sehgal touched upon ego death and funeral rehearsals, creative leadership and the quest to create a "template for humanity." Now, it is online in _...Read More_

"What is the future of the human head? What will happen to our sensory apparatus in 50 years, when the mechanisms for how we communicate and sense our surroundings become obsolete, prompted by the advancement of sensors that will enable _...Read More_

My 4-year-old buried his head in my hip and let out a short, gaspy shriek. It could have been thrill. It could have been fear. Maybe both? We were watching a video of Simone Biles’s qualifying floor routine at the Tokyo Olympics — the first _...Read More_

"Time capsules date back to the beginning of humanity’s marking of time, and typically represent different traditions and understandings of time and temporality. _...Read More_

The Nobel Prize–winning novelist Kazuo Ishiguro talks to WIRED about AI, Crispr, and his hopes for humanity.

"We do not recognize ourselves in pre-axial humanity, ancient or contemporary; the great archaic empires are like another planet to us. “We are infinitely closer to the _...Read More_

"Conferring personhood on non-humans could help us build a more vibrant and egalitarian world."

If 2020 were a person, what sort of punishment would they deserve? And given the sensible prohibitions against torture in human-rights law, what would be the next _...Read More_

In the Anthropocene—the current terminal period of neoliberal capitalism marked by climate change, environmental degradation, and social-political unraveling—calls to rethink human life abound. In response, a powerful subframe of _...Read More_