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Prophet Motives

Prophet Motives

MIT Technology Review — As more and more parts of our lives become fodder for algorithmic prediction, it’s worth pausing for a moment to consider why we’re so obsessed with forecasting the future and what we lose when we outsource this task to machines.
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Book Review: With Friction, Resistance Is Utile

Book Review: With Friction, Resistance Is Utile

Undark Magazine — In "Friction," tribologist Jennifer Vail shows how the fundamental force that resists motion keeps driving us forward.
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Crass surveillance

Crass surveillance

MIT Technology Review — Rethinking privacy in an age of surveillance capitalism.
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Tech billionaires are making a risky bet with humanity's future

Tech billionaires are making a risky bet with humanity's future

MIT Technology Review — Altman, Bezos, and Musk say they want to save humanity by creating superintelligent AI. Journalist and astrophysicist Adam Becker reveals how these fantastical visions conceal a darker agenda.
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How creativity became the reigning value of our time

How creativity became the reigning value of our time

MIT Technology Review — In "The Cult of Creativity," Samuel Franklin excavates the surprisingly recent history of an idea, an ideal, and an ideology.
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Are friends electric?

Are friends electric?

MIT Technology Review — Three books examine our complex and often fraught relationship with robots, AI, and automation.
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Move fast and pull strings

Move fast and pull strings

MIT Technology Review — How Silicon Valley is disrupting democracy.
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Close listening

Close listening

MIT Technology Review — Embracing the sonic world around us.
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System Shock

System Shock

MIT Technology Review — Three books reckon with technological complexity and the wicked problems it creates.
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How gamification took over the world

How gamification took over the world

MIT Technology Review — Gamification was always just behaviorism dressed up in pixels and point systems. Why did we fall for it?
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Prediction machines

Prediction machines

MIT Technology Review — Three new books warn against turning into the person the algorithm thinks you are.
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The Fight to Save America From Satan's Subliminal Rock Messages

The Fight to Save America From Satan's Subliminal Rock Messages

Atlas Obscura — On April 27, 1982, members of the California Assembly's Consumer Protection and Toxics Committee gathered in Sacramento to hear Robert Plant endorse Satan. This was not a straightforward testimonial. For one thing, the Led Zeppelin frontman wasn't actually in attendance. Also, his pro-devil paeans could only be heard when you played "Stairway to Heaven" backwards.
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You'll Be Outraged at How Easy It Was to Get You to Click on This Headline

You'll Be Outraged at How Easy It Was to Get You to Click on This Headline

WIRED — This article will not restore your faith in humanity. Nor will it amaze, stun, delight, shock, charm, or in any literal or figurative way, blow your mind. What it will do-hopefully in a clear and intelligent way-is explain why people continually fall for clickbait. You know, like you just did a few seconds ago.
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Inside the Nuclear Bunker Where America Preserves Its Movie History

Inside the Nuclear Bunker Where America Preserves Its Movie History

WIRED — If the film is rare, highly flammable, and was made before 1951, there's a good chance it'll end up on George Willeman's desk. Or more specifically, in one of his vaults.
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How Flap Illustrations Helped Reveal the Body's Inner Secrets

How Flap Illustrations Helped Reveal the Body's Inner Secrets

Atlas Obscura — Sixteenth century scholars peeled away anatomical ignorance one layer at a time.
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The Itch Lab

The Itch Lab

The California Sunday Magazine — Decoding the science of why we scratch.
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Faking It

Faking It

The California Sunday Magazine — In the aisles at one of Hollywood’s largest prop houses
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Glass Works

Glass Works

WIRED Magazine — How Corning Created the Ultrathin, Ultrastrong Material of the Future
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