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.

    It’s Time For a New Kind of Power Fantasy Games can–and must–offer different definitions of fantasy, including fantasies of safety and peace.

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

    The Roots of an Epidemic From apartheid labor policies to everyday sexism, socio-political issues influence the spread of TB disease and the effectiveness of health responses. To tackle the epidemic, we need systemic changes.

    Sartorial: A Reading List A crash course in how science and technology is changing how we express ourselves through style.

    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?

    Disability Futures

    We can’t think about the future-of health, of technology, of community-without centering disability; it cuts across every other kind of experience. Disability is central to all of our lives.
    Kenny Fries
    Apr 30, 2019
    A vast stack of containers on a ship

    Postcards From a Supply Chain

    A series that traces consumer goods back through the global shipping system to their source.
    Dan Williams
    Jan 21, 2015

    A Visual History of the Future

    Decades ago, artists’ imaginings formed high expectations about the world to come. Were these just fantasies–or was it the work of pioneers whose visions of the future actually helped to shape it?
    Darren Garrett
    May 30, 2018

    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.

    Humanizing Data: Highlights from EYEO 2018

    A dispatch from the 2018 edition of the conference on technology and culture.
    Duncan Geere
    Jun 14, 2018 2 min read

    Talking With Bots: A Reading List

    A crash course in what it means now that our technology is smart enough to talk back.
    How We Get To Next
    May 4, 2016 3 min read
    A man wears a prosthetic robotic glove, and with that he holds an electric drill.

    Better Than Biology–Underwater Hands and More

    For the first time, divers will be able to pick up delicate undersea creatures or retrieve fragile objects from sunken wrecks.
    David Hambling
    Oct 16, 2014 3 min read