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Taming the Inexplicable

By Liz RyersonFebruary 19, 2016
The Witness’s potentially subversive message is lost inside a culture of relentless techno-utopianism and its creator’s own hubris
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Full Brightness

By Jacqueline FeldmanDecember 18, 2015
Sleep tracking apps report passing dreams as waves
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Media Matters

By Karen GregoryNovember 16, 2015
Silicon Valley’s rhetoric of magical innovation relies on a hidden abode of rare earth mining and hydro-cooled server farms
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Character Assassination

By Ben GabrielMay 4, 2015
Though they foreground models over characters, systems-oriented video games can't evade the issues of identity politics
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The Future Bubble

By Peter FraseMarch 16, 2015
Capitalism posits a future of endless innovation in products and production processes, but no possible change in the social relations that move them
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The Ladies Vanish

By Shawn WenNovember 11, 2014
The most magical innovation of the app economy is making the female workers it depends on mostly invisible.
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Not All Nerds

By Christopher T. FanNovember 6, 2014
By imagining nerds as a race of their own, Silicon Valley tries to disguise its white supremacy
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The Oakland Raiders

By Susie CagleJanuary 6, 2014
While the housing markets of many post-industrial cities are still suffering, Oakland is absorbing the hopes, dreams, and dollars of a California tech boom that won’t be confined to San Francisco and Silicon Valley
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