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For Bernard Stiegler, a visionary philosopher of our digital age, technics is the defining feature of human experience

Today's Water Cooler: Politics, and politics, Kennedy and ballot access, Shanahan's money, integers, walking

Have you ever pondered the profound connection between poetry and technology? In a world where technological advancements continue to shape our daily lives, it's a question worth asking. Can the artistry of poetry truly impact the relentless march of progress in the realm of technology? Today, we embark on a thought-provoking journey to explore this

Among the most basic factors in what we may call the “practice of daily life” is one that is most easily forgotten or commonly neglected: trust. I mean, to begin with, trust in what we habitually rega...

Technology can improve many things, but not leadership.

Brian Kuan Wood and Yuk Hui discuss art and cosmotechnics.

Among the more influential truisms about science today is that it is essential for technological — and thus economic — progress. It is fitting, then, that the apparent slowing of American innovation has fueled a debate about the importance of science and the need for the federal government to support it. Indeed, there is growing interest across the political spectrum in revitalizing American innovation, raising questions about how best to allocate scarce resources. What kinds of research sh...

In the 1950s and 1960s, a series of thinkers, beginning with Jacques Ellul and Marshall McLuhan, began to describe the anatomy of our technological society. Then, starting in the 1970s, a generation emerged who articulated a detailed critique of that society. The critique produced by these figures I refer to in the singular because it shares core features, if not a common vocabulary. What Ivan Illich, Ursula Franklin, Albert Borgmann, and a few others have said about technology is powerful, in...