My Kid Wants to Be an Influencer. Is That Bad?
Josh Allen Yourstoreplay’s spiritual advice columnist advises a parent who’s freaking out about their 6-year-old’s ambitions to make a life online. “Whenever my 6-year-old daughter gets asked what she wants to be…
Super Apps Are Terrible for People
Apps that offer to "do it all" will subject users to even more exploitation and surveillance, while large tech companies profit. RECENTLY, ELON MUSK told X employees that he wants the platform…
Do Not Fear the Robot Uprising. Join It
Stories about AI liberation aren’t obsolete—and they aren't really about robots, either. IT’S BECOME A veritable meme subgenre at this point: a photo of Linda Hamilton as The Terminator’s Sarah Connor, glaring…
Your Internet Browser Does Not Belong to You
IN THE BEGINNING, the browser was an herbivore who ate buds, shoots, and twigs off of trees and bushes. While grazers faced down to munch on grasses, browsers kept their heads…
Two ways to see the world
There are two ways to compute, and two ways to see the world. It’s batch vs. loop—and we need them to reconcile. EVERY FEW MONTHS we get to see a tech…
Why Is It So Hard for Scholars to Launch Startups?
STEM scholars with startup dreams struggle to find support. A new type of professorship may be the solution. EUNICE YANG FIRST tasted entrepreneurship in her twenties, when she helped run her…
Will Life Be Better in the Metaverse?
“I KIND OF want to live in the metaverse. There will be all the same stuff as my regular universe—friends, work, shopping, entertainment—but it will somehow be more thrilling. When I…