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Today, AI tools lower the energetic costs of creating something. They make it easier to start and easier to finish. AIs can ...

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I wrote this short memo last November, 2024, at the invitation of Wired Mid-East for their year-end issue. I think it still holds up nine months later, and represents where we are on this astounding ...

Get Born Standing Up. Steve Martin recounts his 18-year journey from an amateur magician to a comedy superstar. It’s filled ...

The common career advice to “follow your passion” often leads to anxiety, job-hopping, and chronic dissatisfaction. Cal ...

Alan Kay, a brilliant polymath who has worked at Atari, Xerox, Apple, and Disney, came up with as good a definition of technology as I’ve heard. “Technology,” Kay says, “is anything that was invented ...

Ted Kaczynski, the convicted bomber who blew up dozens of technophilic professionals, was right about one thing: technology has its own agenda. The technium is not, as most people think, a series of ...

Trevor Paglen is a thorn in Uncle Sam’s side. Known for snapping telephoto candids of CIA planes and Area 51, the artist also gathers “patch intel,” which he’s collected in this provocative book (main ...

Many years ago I took a meandering 5,000 mile bike ride across the US, from San Francisco to New York via Idaho and Texas. I rode back roads all the way and it was a highlight of my life. But this ...

A work crane at the Clock site in western Texas. There is a Clock ringing deep inside a mountain. It is a huge Clock, hundreds of feet tall, designed to tick for 10,000 years. Every once in a while ...