The Daily The lie in The Loop I'm reading this book right now called The Loop. The sub-title sells it: "How technology is creating a world without choices and how to fight back." It's about the "loop" between our minds and our technology. The way that tech is designed to pull in our attention and keep us
The Daily The real-life monsters in charge of your civilization What happens when a philosophical idea shapes the whole culture into soulless robots
Members only The Daily Why Artificial General Intelligence hangs out with Bigfoot You'll discover cryptids before geeks will code a superintelligent machine out of Bayes's theorem
The Daily Sterling stigmatizes Singularity sycophants Nerds get all bent out of shape over this author's moderately critical comments on AI
The Daily Storytelling in the Singularity What can you say about a world where you can't say anything?
The Daily They say cyberpunk is dead but we're living in it Cyberpunk can't be dead when it's right outside
The Daily Health experts want to wire you up with AI for your own good Spoiler alert: it's never for your own good
Members only The Daily The immortality scam sold to you by the medical-industrial complex Who wants to live forever?
Members only The Daily Dan Simmons' Hyperion proves that love is better than science With spaceships and cool monsters and stuff too
Members only The Daily Is Elon Musk's Neuralink brain chip an evil scheme to destroy your sense of self? (Part 3) Having an implant wired into your brain might do a lot more than speed up your communication...
Members only The Daily Why should SF writers care what philosophers think when you've got The Science? There's a total breakdown between the experts and the artists... and you get to pay for it with sub-par stories
The Daily Will Elon Musk's Neuralink brain chip turn you into a stupid robot? (Part 2) What words mean is more than "word games"
The Daily Why Elon Musk's Neuralink brain chip will be the end of you Think twice before getting excited about this ambitious project to rebuild human beings in the image of machines
The Daily Weyland-Yutani's got nothing on these mega-corporations Cyberpunk isn't dead, but it has changed since the heyday of the 80s style
The Daily How cybernetics became the metaphysics of death worship When we study humans as if they were machines, we lose everything that makes a life worth living.