Exploring new forms of human creativity
Astrology Doesn’t Have To Be Real To Make You Happy
If advertisements are designed to make us insecure enough to buy fancy sheets and pricey furniture in order to feel as if we’re the best, then horoscopes help us treat ourselves with self-compassion.
Hollywood’s Digital Worlds Head Deeper Into the Uncanny Valley
Cinematic visual effects are currently in a Renaissance moment. But often this impressive technology is deployed not because it is narratively necessary but simply because it is available.
Exploring the Future Beyond Cyberpunk’s Neon and Noir
“Cyberpunk” has been the go-to imagery of the future for 35 years old-it’s time for new ways to think about what’s to come.
Black Mirror, Light Mirror: Teaching Technology Ethics Through Speculation
Where can technology take us that will benefit society and make things better? How can we get to those futures?
Ringtones and Playstations: The Tools of Grime’s Low-Fidelity All-Stars
How 21st-century London’s homegrown music genre was shaped by the technology used to compose it.
Humanizing Data: Highlights from EYEO 2018
A dispatch from the 2018 edition of the conference on technology and culture.
When Charts Go Weird: The Joy of Xenographics
Xenographics can be fun alternatives to the classic bar, line, and pie chart trio–but they can also be more effective for certain kinds of data.
Making Scents
What live theater can gain from catering to our olfactory systems.
The Future of Theme Parks
Are they about to get personal?
Ten Stories of Science and Tech Hollywood Should Tell Next
With the stories of Alan Turing and Stephen Hawking both up for Oscars, here’s 10 more historical characters from the fields of science and engineering crying out for the Hollywood treatment.
Turning Discarded Chewing Gum Into Art
For this artist, discarded gum isn’t litter–it’s an opportunity for expression.