The Human Machine

A series about the increasingly blurred lines between us and our machines.
Ian Steadman

The ID Question

Who decides who you are? You, or the world around you?
Anjali Ramachandran

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

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.

Piano Strings Tickled with Electromagnets, Not Hammers

Creating a new tool for composers and performers.
Alice Bell
2 min read

The Age of the Instagram Eyebrow

We aspire to be a popular avatar–like a Kardashian–more than we aspire to a prior age’s more conventional markers of achievement or beauty.
Leigh Alexander
5 min read

Artificial Intelligence: A Reading List

A crash course in human attempts to build machines better than nature’s own.
How We Get To Next
1 min read