The enormous, windowless concrete buildings encircled by chain-link fencing and humming cooling systems on the outskirts of any mid-sized American city where a new data center…
The slightly awkward ritual of starting a game from the desktop, closing the notification that wants to update your drivers, clicking past the launcher that appeared…
Every September, someone declares the smartphone’s demise somewhere in Silicon Valley or on a keynote stage in a city that still adheres to its own mythology.…
Imagine someone who, for the most part, gets up early, runs three times a week, eats mindfully, and stays away from the office birthday cake. Nevertheless,…
Most people are familiar with the foggy, irritable slump that appears in the middle of the afternoon, frequently following a quick, processed, and forgettable lunch. It…
A student opens a chatbot on a shared screen in a university computer lab in Lagos or Nairobi. It doesn’t require a credit card or an…
Somewhere in a Los Angeles city government office, a municipal employee who used to take an hour to draft a standard communication is now witnessing a…
A tiny orange fish darts in and out of a swaying column of tentacles that would paralyze nearly any other creature that touched them somewhere in…
Imagine a call center floor in Bangalore or Manila, with rows of headsets, the low hum of a hundred conversations going on at once, and agents…
An octopus named Heidi, curled in her tank, starts to ripple at one point in a now-famous documentary clip. While she’s sleeping, her skin changes from…