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Ian Bogost

Ian Bogost

The Atlantic

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This Is Helicopter Protesting

Faculty are involving themselves in student demonstrations, and sometimes getting injured or arrested. Are they helping? “I am a professor! I am a...

06.05.2024 10

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Ian Bogost

Columbia Has Resorted to Pedagogy Theater

Holding classes over Zoom just pretends to solve a problem. Columbia University shut down all in-person classes on Monday, and faculty and staff were...

24.04.2024 30

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Ian Bogost

Twilight of the Domain Name

Internet addresses are places. Most of them have been deserted. One morning in 1999, while I sat at the office computer where I built corporate...

08.04.2024 10

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Ian Bogost

AI Has Lost Its Magic

That’s how you know it’s taking over. I frequently ask ChatGPT to write poems in the style of the American modernist poet Hart Crane. It does an...

04.04.2024 10

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Ian Bogost

The Internet Was Better When It Was Terrible

What I learned surfing an emulation of the mid-’90s web “Was the internet really this bad?” I wondered to myself as I read the September 1995...

25.03.2024 5

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Ian Bogost

Universities Have a Computer-Science Problem

The case for teaching coders to speak French Last year, 18 percent of Stanford University seniors graduated with a degree in computer science, more...

19.03.2024 300

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Ian Bogost

What Makes a Great Newspaper Puzzle?

The New York Times debuts a new one. The word search is perhaps the lowest form of puzzle. As a staple of Highlights magazines and family-restaurant...

06.03.2024 7

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Ian Bogost

It’s Time to Give Up on Email

Four steps for getting over a very bad relationship You got a new credit card, maybe, or signed up for a food-delivery service. Let the emailing...

04.03.2024 10

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Ian Bogost

TVs Aren’t Meant to Be This Good

4K resolution is a sham. Last fall, when Netflix hiked the cost of its top-tier Ultra HD plan by 15 percent, I had finally had enough: $22.99 a month...

28.02.2024 10

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Ian Bogost

Carry-On Baggage Has Reached a ‘Breaking Point’

Airplanes aren’t made for this much luggage A man grunts and sighs in the crowded aisle next to you. His backpack swats your shoulder. “If an...

15.02.2024 90

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Ian Bogost

The Apple Vision Pro Will Really Freak You Out

A dispatch from the gypsum dunes of cyberspace “I am crying,” Adrienne LaFrance, The Atlantic’s executive editor, said when I connected with her...

04.02.2024 10

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Ian Bogost

DEI Is Not the Problem

Higher education is a broken model. Just about everyone in America seems to be angry at higher education. Congress is angry. State governments are...

31.01.2024 30

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Ian Bogost

The End of the Computer Mouse

Its demise has consequences. Once upon a time, long before smartphones or even laptops were ubiquitous, the computer mouse was new, and it was...

24.01.2024 8

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Ian Bogost

I Will Not Thumbs-Up Your Email

Emoji, tapbacks, and thumbs-ups were devised to spare your time and attention. Now they’ve become a chore. I’ve been emailing with a small group...

18.01.2024 9

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Ian Bogost

The Internet Is Just Reactions Now

Emoji, tapbacks, and thumbs-ups were devised to spare your time and attention. Now they’ve become a chore. I’ve been emailing with a small group...

18.01.2024 5

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Ian Bogost

The Plagiarism War Has Begun

Claudine Gay was taken down by a politically motivated investigation. Would the same approach work for any academic? Updated at 4:10 p.m. ET on...

05.01.2024 30

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Ian Bogost

Introducing: How to Keep Time

Co-hosts Becca Rashid and contributing writer Ian Bogost examine our relationship with time and what we can do to reclaim it. Why can it feel like...

06.11.2023 10

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Ian Bogost

My Imagination Is on Steroids Now

AI is making dreams come true. What if The Atlantic owned a train car? I wondered. Amtrak, I had just learned on the internet, allows owners of...

31.10.2023 8

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Ian Bogost

The Pumpkin Spice Latte Made Autumn Perfect

For 20 years, the drink has felt eternal. I drink the Pumpkin Spice Latte to commune with autumn. Not first for its taste, warmth or color, though...

15.10.2023 7

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Ian Bogost

My Books Were Used to Train Meta’s Generative AI. Good.

It can have my next one too. When The Atlantic revealed last month that tens of thousands of books published in the past 20 years had been used...

27.09.2023 4

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Ian Bogost

Office Work Is Social Media Now

Slack’s redesign suggests that keeping up with Slack is the only work worth doing. “Oh,” I slacked my Atlantic colleagues earlier this week,...

14.09.2023 8

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Ian Bogost

You Should Worry About the Data Retailers Collect About You

But probably not for the reasons you think. A man walks into a Minneapolis-area Target, angry about coupons his teenage daughter received for baby...

13.09.2023 20

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Ian Bogost

Americans Gave Up on Landlines. They Shouldn’t Have.

The death of the home telephone was premature. Until last month, I hadn’t kept a landline phone at home since 2004. I deemed it so useless that for...

12.09.2023 10

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Ian Bogost

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