Tech

What Our Tech Ethics Crisis Says About the State of Computer Science Education

The problem with "I'm just an engineer" isn't the engineer's inability to identify all relevant ethical implications–it's that they don't think...
Casey Fiesler
Dec 5, 2018 7 min read

Meet Your iPhone’s Grandparent

When people say there's more power in your pocket than was used to get to the moon, they're right-but it took...
Duncan Geere
Sep 28, 2018 8 min read

Airplanes, Zoos, and Infinite Chickens

An exploration of the power of play, from screen-based games like Pokémon Go or Minecraft, to the imaginative worlds of children...
Steven Johnson
Oct 5, 2016 11 min read

32 Dots Per Spaceship

A look back at the origins of Spacewar!, the first video game and one of the most influential pieces of software...
Steven Johnson
Sep 23, 2016 10 min read

6 Perpetual Motion Devices That Didn’t Work

Always fake, but not always hoaxes.
Ian Steadman
Feb 10, 2016 6 min read

Afrofuturism and Outsider Tech

Afrofuturists, like hackers, get their strength from working and innovating outside traditional institutions.
Florence Okoye
Feb 2, 2016 4 min read

Black Culture Applied to Technology

An interview with Ian Forrester about Afrofuturism.
Florence Okoye
Jan 29, 2016 7 min read

Time for an Afrodigitalist Manifesto?

An interview with Olu Niyi-Awosusi.
Florence Okoye
Jan 20, 2016 5 min read

Going Up

Meet Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, father of the space elevator.
Duncan Geere
Aug 17, 2015 3 min read

How We Got To: The Smart Fridge

From Francis Bacon to the Large Hadron Collider.
Darren Garrett
May 20, 2015 43 sec read
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