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Everyday Technology Is Becoming a Black Box. Is There a Cost?
1 day ago
Children once learned by taking things apart. Today’s devices do not provide...
Jules Verne’s Empty Dream of Spaceflight
5 days ago
In “From the Earth to the Moon,” scientific advancement is treated as...
The Lost Civic Life of Movie Rental Stores
9 days ago
Decades before recommendation algorithms, video stores served as social hubs where conversation...
How the Amish Let Technology in Without Letting It Take Over
12 days ago
After three years studying the community, I came to see that the...
The False Promise of the First ‘Smart’ Homes
15 days ago
Computerized rooms, telework stations, and child-soothing technologies sold a seductive illusion that...
A Brief History of the Internet’s Favorite Scam
19 days ago
Fraudsters have long told stories of imprisoned nobles and hidden fortunes, with...
How Shipping Container Disasters Became a Scientific Goldmine
23 days ago
Oceanographers have quietly used lost cargo to build the most precise maps...
How Brunelleschi Changed the Way I Think About Decisions
26 days ago
In trying to understand how we make better choices, I found an...
Can the Classroom Ever Be Automated?
30 days ago
Long before AI, teaching machines promised to make education more efficient. Their...
What Is ‘De-Extinction’ Really For?
about 1 month ago
Efforts to revive the thylacine and woolly mammoth are forcing conservationists to...
American Progress Was an Optical Illusion
about 1 month ago
The turn-of-the-century energy transition dazzled the nation — while concealing segregation, extraction...
The Future of Family Planning Is Here. Is the Constitution Ready?
about 1 month ago
Surrogacy, embryo disputes, and synthetic gametes raise profound, unanswered questions about liberty...