Tech visionaries foresee a vast, immersive world that mirrors and extends the real one, allowing people to do and be what previously could only be imagined.

Art and technology both derive from the Greek word technê—a fact not lost on Aidan Meller, the force behind the world’s first humanoid robot artist, Ai-Da. Named after the pioneering computer programmer Ada Lovelace, she was created to _...Read More_

"The software made it easier to crack jokes and easier to stir up trouble. Employees love it. Bosses don’t."

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

"The video-sharing app avoids scrutiny because politicians don’t take it seriously."

"Julia Ducournau’s surreal horror film is a harrowing exploration of the body and technology."

"The ubiquity of access to information has lulled us into complacency with its flipside: ever more highly technologized forms of surveillance and the overexposure of our personal data"

>"The historian and politician helped transform how several generations understood 18th- and 19th-century history."

>"A conversation between Alexander R. Galloway and Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan on the digital and the analog."

"Art and technology both derive from the Greek word technê—a fact not lost on Aidan Meller, the force behind the world’s first humanoid robot artist, Ai-Da. Named after the pioneering computer programmer Ada Lovelace, she was created to _...Read More_

"The iPads, touched or untouched, radiate their persuasive power. We may not be using them, but they’re serving their purpose."

>"A political binary touted by progressives has alienated huge numbers of people over the course of the pandemic."

>"We may sometimes behave like computers, but more often, we are creative, irrational, and not always too bright."

>"When I’m curled up in bed at night and I want to reminisce, I go first to my screenshots folder, not my photo albums."