The Word Made Lifeless
The development of AI reads less like a familiar chapter from the history of consumer capitalism and more like the storyboard of a Bond film in which we’ve all been cast as extras.
Perplexity
Why is the essential promise of technology—the alleviation of drudgery—not enough? Maybe, in the case of AI, because it remains unclear what drudgery it can realistically alleviate.
Perplexity
Why is the essential promise of technology—the alleviation of drudgery—not enough? Maybe, in the case of AI, because it remains unclear what drudgery it can realistically alleviate.
On Not Carrying a Camera
The ten thousand photographs stored on a cellphone are a dramatic refutation of my photographic diffidence.
The Algorithm and the Hippocratic Oath
Doctors need a medical humanities that does more than just help them see health and disease through a patient’s eyes.
The Department of Everything
A world that has tossed out the print edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica in favor of Wikipedia is not necessarily a richer one.
Sorting the Self
The self has never been more securely an object of classification than it is today.
Sorting the Self
The self has never been more securely an object of classification than it is today.
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