technology
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The Rumpus Interview with Jeremy Hawkins
Author Jeremy Hawkins discusses his debut novel, The Last Days of Video, the resurgence of the independent bookstore industry, and allowing nostalgia to have presence but not precedence in one’s life.
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Weekly Geekery
Mars: The ultimate back up planet. Goodbye, ladyblogging. How does social media walk the line between enabling hate speech and not giving it a megaphone. The Kindle cannot kill the bookstore. NOT EVER! Using algorithms to buy art. Connecting into…
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Libraries, Now in 3D
3D printers are the latest accessory arriving in modern public libraries. However, just like when libraries introduced technologies such as the Internet, 3D printers raise concerns over what the public should be allowed to do with the equipment. NPR takes…
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Weekly Geekery
Are you a science dummy? Do you need to be happy? There is an app for that. The science of your face. Algorithms don’t know best. The history of Silicon Valley.
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Now, Writing is for Extroverts Too
When my wife proposed writing a novel together last year, I was initially resistant but not for the most obvious reasons. I wasn’t worried about our ability to work together. I wasn’t even worried about whether we could actually produce…
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Weekly Geekery
Examining continuity on screen and in our minds. How to constantly work without actually working. Buzzfeed is not so special after all. (So says the Atlantic.) Algorithms are to creativity in the 21st century as Gutenberg’s press was to creativity in…
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Weekly Geekery
Space sex! The science of being twitterpated. iPads can’t fix everything. The religion of technology. Need to police the police? There’s an app for that.
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Unusual Libraries Result from Modern Needs
Libraries arrive on camels, roll up on three wheels, float into our lives, speed along underground, or sometimes just like to host a party. Libraries of the past have been formal, center of civilization institutions of state control. The move toward…
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The Art of Interruptions
For The Millions, Steve Himmer writes about “the narrative possibilities of networked life.”
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Technology Never Forgets
Draftback is a Google Chrome extension that allows you to watch every keystroke of every revision made to a Google Doc played back to you, opening up a new way to study how writers write. Chadwick Matlin at FiveThirtyEight tried…
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Writing in the Age of Google
If there is an individual alive in 2015 with the genius and vision of James Joyce, they’re probably working for Google, and if there isn’t, it doesn’t matter since the operations of that genius and vision are being developed and…
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Sound & Vision: Daniel Mintseris
Keyboardist and programmer Daniel Mintseris discusses his work with St. Vincent and Annie Clark, coming to the US from Lithuania at nineteen, and the difference between traditional composition and writing music on instinct using cutting-edge technology.