Taming the Inexplicable
The Witness’s potentially subversive message is lost inside a culture of relentless techno-utopianism and its creator’s own hubris
Full Brightness
Sleep tracking apps report passing dreams as waves
Media Matters
Silicon Valley’s rhetoric of magical innovation relies on a hidden abode of rare earth mining and hydro-cooled server farms
Character Assassination
Though they foreground models over characters, systems-oriented video games can't evade the issues of identity politics
The Future Bubble
Capitalism posits a future of endless innovation in products and production processes, but no possible change in the social relations that move them
The Ladies Vanish
The most magical innovation of the app economy is making the female workers it depends on mostly invisible.
Not All Nerds
By imagining nerds as a race of their own, Silicon Valley tries to disguise its white supremacy
The Oakland Raiders
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