The Way We Work: A Reading List A crash course in new developments in employment and labor.

    Does Siri Believe in God? A theological guide to chatbots and the world’s major religions.

    The Boundaries of Artificial Emotional Intelligence If our virtual assistants and emotional laborers are all turning out to be soothing, female-voiced AI, will it close certain gaps for human women? Or will it ratify them?

    How We Got To: The Smart Fridge From Francis Bacon to the Large Hadron Collider.

    Let Robots Handle Your Emotional Burnout at Work But as robotics and computing evolve, some researchers foresee a future where technology can relieve the long-held emotional burden of some of these professions. They think we owe it to the service workforce to offer a new frontline of robotic protection. In fact, they think it’s far overdue–but does that actually mean just automating these jobs away?

    Chasing Virality Brought Us Fake News, Now Everything’s on Fire By uncritically embedding itself into social networks, did the media actually usher in the era of fake news?

    The Human Machine

    A series about the increasingly blurred lines between us and our machines.
    Ian Steadman
    Aug 23, 2017

    Fowl Plague

    Pandemics have threatened humanity in the past–and avian influenza may well be the next one due.
    Duncan Geere
    Aug 4, 2017

    Isla del Encanto

    Puerto Ricans have always found opportunity in the limits placed upon them. Exploring the island’s agricultural future–from community gardens to research hubs, bakers to growers to distillers.
    Alicia Kennedy
    Apr 16, 2019

    Beats: Space

    Space is where we project our dreams–and our nightmares–of the future.

    Beats: Food

    Food structures our day, and food systems shape our world

    Beats: Disability

    “Disable” is an active verb, and disability describes the social and environmental barriers that prevent access just as much as an individual body’s physical reality.

    Beats: Health

    Access to health care is as much a matter of public policy as it is the size of a person’s pocketbook; within a doctor’s office, many factors affect the quality of treatment.

    Sartorial: A Reading List

    A crash course in how science and technology is changing how we express ourselves through style.
    How We Get To Next
    Sep 1, 2016 2 min read

    Would You Like to Be Uploaded to a Computer When You Die?

    Rattling around inside a hard drive doesn’t sound like an awful lot of fun–but then, neither does death.
    Dan Sung
    Oct 25, 2016 10 min read

    A History of Humanoid Robots

    How we’ve recreated mankind in metal through time.
    Duncan Geere
    Jun 12, 2015 2 min read