Writing at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland
The story of this blog so far: 'AI', the death of web dev, and feeling like an outsider
Writing at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland
Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology
A witty, often terrifying that chronicles our transform…
The Evolution of Creativity
Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.
Education in a Time Between Worlds: Essays on the Futur…
Our world is currently undergoing major transformations…
Rolling the ladder up behind us
Who will take over for us if we don't train the next generation to replace us? A critique of craft, AI, and the legacy of human expertise.
The Story of Python and how it took over the world | Python: The Documentary
Humanism and artificial intelligence
If humanism was born with the alphabet in a literate environment and was reborn with the printing press, what becomes of it when digital technology becomes the dominant symbolic technology?
War and the lost generation of inventors
Large wars destroy not only lives and infrastructure but also the human capital that fuels long-term economic progress. This column presents new evidence from Britain that shows that communities that lost many young men in World War I experienced persistent declines in subsequent innovation. The losses were particularly detrimental for frontier technologies and breakthrough inventions, highlighting how war can leave long-lasting scars on a country’s capacity to generate new ideas.
All the Ways Europe Is Ditching American Technology
A WIRED timeline shows how dozens of governments, companies, and other organizations across Europe are moving, or planning to shift, away from US Big Tech.
Leaving the Physical World
For the Conference on HyperNetworking, Oita, Japan by John Perry Barlow Like very few Americans of my generation, I come from the physical world. I spent most of my working life running a large
Vitalik: An Ethereum Story // Full Film
A People’s History of Tech
A collective storytelling project to build a more representative history that reflects the human impacts of technology.
The Nature of Technology: What It Is and How It Evolves
Leading scientific theorist W. Brian Arthur puts forth …
