Virtually Disconnected
by James A. HamelJust as we don’t want science or warfare to be unmoored from ethics and morality, we should likewise insist that technology remain tethered to a proper understanding of human nature. Continue Reading »
Just as we don’t want science or warfare to be unmoored from ethics and morality, we should likewise insist that technology remain tethered to a proper understanding of human nature. Continue Reading »
The selling of user data in a prayer app is a wonderfully concise illustration of what emerges victorious when e-commerce and piety collide. Continue Reading »
At root, Gen Z’s obsession with identity is a perverted but genuine pursuit of truth in a world that obscures it. Continue Reading »
For nearly a decade, Facebook has been shifting the company away from an ethos of connecting real people and toward a kind of permanent digital habitation, the contraction of life so as to fit inside algorithms. Continue Reading »
Regulation of social media companies is a good idea, but the wisest, most plausible, and also most effective option is not law, but stigma. Continue Reading »
Dating apps lead young people to settle for a quick fix, a temporary satiation of a deep, human desire to love and be loved, to know and be known. Continue Reading »
The old Mass has been done down by new technology. Continue Reading »
To understand the Internet you need both: Lockwood’s diptych of cloud and clarity, and Basu’s chaos mosaic. Continue Reading »
It is time for Trump to tick off another campaign promise and protect our nation’s children from pornography. Continue Reading »
In the world run by social credit, an individual’s score becomes the ultimate truth of his existence. Continue Reading »