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Despite The Deluge’s harrowing, hyperrealistic story, author Steven Markley is more hopeful than ever—especially after the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act.

Henry Grabar, author of Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World, talks about the blunders of urban planners and how better cities depend a whole lot on a smarter approach to parking.

We talk with Sima Sistani, the CEO of Weight Watchers, about applying her previous careers in social media to the company’s efforts to build a digital community.

The editors-in-chief of both Wired and Quartz have, coincidentally, stepped down from their positions on the same day.

We talk to media scholar Ethan Zuckerman about why Twitter became the de facto digital public square and what other platforms like Bluesky or Mastodon might offer.

We talk to MIT professor Daron Acemoglu about his book Power and Progress and unpack why making direct human-to-AI comparisons isn’t necessarily helpful in determining our relationship with technology.

The FBI disables notorious Russia-linked malware, the EU edges toward a facial recognition ban, and security firm Dragos has an intrusion of its own.

We talk to the Signal Foundation’s Meredith Whittaker about how the surveillance economy is newer than we all might realize—and what we can do to fight back.

We sat down to talk about work culture, automation, and also how to step away from the notifications (and your job).

We spoke with a futurist to understand the difference between predicting what's coming down the pike and instead being ready for it emotionally.