technology
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Writing Women into Technology
For Motherboard at VICE, John R. Platt examines the gender disparity in journalism sources and the consequences in his own work when addressing and correcting that disparity. Platt’s piece ran as part of Motherboard’s Silicon Divide series that looked at…
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Your Regularly Scheduled Gratification
At the Atlantic, Megan Garber explores the revival of the serial with the recent release of Belgravia, a serial novel-and-app from Julian Fellowes, the creator of Downton Abbey.
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Weekly Geekery
Is indie publishing dead or just moving over to Medium? Your money is snitching on you. Are you schizophrenic? There’s an app for that. Alert: More hand-wringing over technology ruining things. This time, the death we mourn is live music.
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Reboot the Arc of Progress
At the Atlantic, Adrienne LaFrance delves into the popular belief that technology naturally bends towards equality and progress to show how rarely that idea actually plays out.
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The Internet as Place
It seems counterintuitive that technology could facilitate these kinds of humanistic affirmations. That the voices of the oppressed could find not just a home, but an incredibly powerful platform, online. Yet, here we are reaching out, speaking out, and asserting…
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How to Write Emoji
For Guernica, Elisa Gabbert explores the incorporation of emoji into language and fiction. Gabbert also addresses the idea of diachronic translations, i.e. translating fiction from one historical era to another, and what place hyper-specific contemporary technology like emoji have in…
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Technology Gets Literary
Technology website CNET did something rather unexpected last week: it published fiction. “The Last Taco Truck in Silicon Valley” is the site’s first foray into literary fiction, part of a monthly series that editors hope will attract new readers to…
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Weekly Geekery
Competing views of our technological progress. The exciting life and revolutionary science of Robert Trivers. Racism, psychology, and the British Empire. What’s in a name? A glacier.
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Teaching a Robot to Love
Last year physicist Stephen Hawking suggested that advanced artificial intelligence, or AI, could lead to the end of humanity. How are scientists working on this issue? Teaching robots empathy with books! Newsweek reports on the Quixote system, which teaches AI…
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Authors and the Automated
The Believer Logger contributes more insights into the never-ending conversation on the role of technology in our writing. Does it mean demise? Or can authors persist on in the face of an ever more autogenerated world?
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Weekly Geekery
Opening the doors of Silicon Valley’s male-dominated culture. The Internet’s deep rift. Facebook, but for trees. Remembering Dawkins.
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Old Habits
Unplugging is bound to free up some time; spending that time is another matter. After reading Mindful Tech, David M. Levy’s book about how and why we use devices, Matthew J.X. Malady decided to give the simple life a try:…