Scale
What new kinds of scale does technology enable and demand? Why is scale such an important concept for the tech industry? What kinds of problems and possibilities do big tech, big data, big everything create? How do we govern, mobilize, moderate, democratize at scale?
Don’t Read the Comments: Caroline Sinders on Online Harassment
A design researcher at Wikimedia discusses how to define online harassment—and how to stop it.
Mining the Sky: Meehan Crist, Atossa Araxia Abrahamian, and Denton Ebel on Astrocapitalism
American entrepreneurs are teaming up with one of the world’s smallest countries to make outer space safe for extractive capitalism.
Do It Yourself: Matt Bruenig on Using the Internet to Build a Think Tank
A conversation about building political alternatives with the internet.
The Internet of Women
A reflection on #MeToo, the death of print media, and the structure of the internet.
The New Octopus
An anatomy of today’s tech monopolies, and a proposal for how to tame them.
The Unicorn Hunters
The past, present, and future of Silicon Valley’s venture capital industry.
"The Scale Is Just Unfathomable"
An inquiry into how social media platforms moderate content at an industrial scale.
See No Evil
An investigation into how software wires global supply chains, and what code conceals.
The Reciprocal Biomimicry Initiative
The world’s first program dedicated to systematically adapting human technologies to benefit other organisms.
The Factory Is Alive
Living within our means might require making our technology come alive.
Shapeshifters
A report on how digital technology has revolutionized gerrymandering.
Crawling the City
Apps like Yelp and Foursquare don’t just map the city. They gentrify it.
Cyborg Tongues
What happens when small languages collide with smartphones and the internet?