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Ian BogostThe Atlantic |
Faculty are involving themselves in student demonstrations, and sometimes getting injured or arrested. Are they helping? “I am a professor! I am a...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The case for teaching coders to speak French Last year, 18 percent of Stanford University seniors graduated with a degree in computer science, more...
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...
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...
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...
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...
A dispatch from the gypsum dunes of cyberspace “I am crying,” Adrienne LaFrance, The Atlantic’s executive editor, said when I connected with her...
Higher education is a broken model. Just about everyone in America seems to be angry at higher education. Congress is angry. State governments are...
Its demise has consequences. Once upon a time, long before smartphones or even laptops were ubiquitous, the computer mouse was new, and it was...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Slack’s redesign suggests that keeping up with Slack is the only work worth doing. “Oh,” I slacked my Atlantic colleagues earlier this week,...
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...
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...