weekly geekery
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Weekly Geekery
Should you really follow your bliss? What is really behind Flint’s water crisis? Will Facebook become even more of a virtual reality? Novelists are the best at seeing inside the mind of a terrorist.
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Weekly Geekery
Should Facebook decide what qualifies as tragedy? How can technology shape stories beyond how they are displayed? Herzog on reality. Would our Founding Fathers approve of copyright law?
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Weekly Geekery
The hegemony of email. The mermaid who is saving the ocean. Uranium cures. Everyone who writes online has been told page views matter—except they don’t. Teaching fairness.
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Weekly Geekery
Science fiction says more about the present than the future. The realities of virtual reality. Google takes on the quest for the fountain of youth. Use the power of the force—the linguistic force. The anatomy of a lie.
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Weekly Geekery
Computers know images better than you. Is virtual reality better than books? Stop calling it science fiction. Raising the minimum age of social media. Star Wars and predictable stories.
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Weekly Geekery
The long dark history of socialist utopias. Get all the gadgets! Netflix binges are ruining the environment. Internet hate speech law.
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Weekly Geekery
Why is Dr. Seuss funny? Science knows. Stanford has a digital humanities major. So, that’s a thing now. Dominating the translation business. These youths are really famous on the Internet.
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Weekly Geekery
The digital life at sea. The unlikely history of video games. All those YouTubers sound the same. Once again, the Internet is ruining all good things.
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Weekly Geekery
Hackers are taking down the police. Should we regulate the most addictive substance known to humans aka the Internet? The dark side of Silicon Valley. The food legacy of the great cranberry scare.
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Weekly Geekery
A song of my selfie. A year after the Sony hack. Wired: the good and the bad and the in between. A visual history of the OS we all love to hate.
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Weekly Geekery
Email is evil… Which explains why Millennials like it so much. Probably. Speaking of Millennials, they get a fancy new, techy bookstore in London. So, that’s nice. Quitting Facebook makes you happier.
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Weekly Geekery
Amazon will never replace libraries. The power of an emoji. Google is Minority Report. Probably. Technology and the palimpsest.