Examining Bill Gates
On the new Techtonic I interviewed journalist and author Tim Schwab about his book The Bill Gates Problem: Reckoning with the Myth of the Good Billionaire,...
Full of slop until the bubble pops
There are growing warnings about the imminent end of the AI bubble. Brian Merchant (who I've written about) posted about "the beginning of the end of the...
A dystopian novel praising human connection
I don’t think I’ve ever read a novel that finished with an End Notes section, followed by Other Works Read. And yet that’s what Helen Phillips does at the...
Surveillance never sits still
To mark the seventh anniversary of my WFMU show Techtonic, I built this week’s episode around a simple reminder: Even more devices are spying on you. I say...
Our human legacy is... Facebook?
“Never before have so few had so much control over so much information about the past, and with it, the power to shape the present.” So says Carl Öhman in...