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The Algorithm Wars: Why Humans Are Winning
Why communities are abandoning big platforms for private spaces where they control their own cultural evolution.
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Technology & Our Primitive Brains
The role some of our primitive human brain aspects play in our digital lives.
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Why And How Technocracy Will Fail
The tech billionaires want to replace democracy with algorithms. They’re about to discover why that’s impossible.
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How Different Cultures View Technology
The fascinating ways different cultures are navigating the digital age.
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Why We’re All Writing Badly on Purpose Now
The quiet rebellion against AI that’s happening in your inbox, your texts, and your brain.
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No, The Smartphone Isn’t Broken.
Why all those AI gadgets keep failing while your phone keeps winning.
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Sorry, But Humanity Can’t be Coded
Why our messy, beautiful cultural habits resist being reduced to clean lines of computer code. Culture can’t be coded.
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The Digital Anthropologist
What it means to be human in the digital age. Why and how technology shapes us and how we then shape technology. This helps us prepare for the future.
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