Society

First in a series of guest-blogging posts.

In a digital landscape overrun by algorithms and A.I., we need human guides to help us decide what’s worth paying attention to.

Interviews with people in remote communities challenge widely held perception that money buys happiness

A secret question hovers over us, a sense of disappointment, a broken promise we were given as children about what our adult world was supposed to be like. I am referring not to the standard false…

The Price of Utopia - a thread It has been 54 years since 1970. Life is certainly different today than it was in 1970. Personal computers and smart phones, for one, are ubiquitous now. But would daily life for many people around the world, but especially in the capitalist core of North America and Europe, be all that unrecognizable? If we looked back a similar span of time from 1970, we’d find ourselves in 1916. I’d venture to guess that someone in 1916 would be more overwhelmed by the changes apparent by 1970, than a person from 1970 would be by 2024. The mass adoption of the personal automobile and recreational air travel; space travel and atomic physics; televisions and telephones; birth control and antibiotics—it feels, on some level, that things changed much more and faster and then…slowed down. 1/8

Rest of World spoke to 50 older workers around the world who see gig work as a lifeline — or a last resort.

The artist and musician Holly Herndon explores the promise — and complications — of collaborating with A.I.

There is an election in the UK. Here is what a new government should do.

Friday evening, I had the privilege of watching my fifth group of seniors cross the stage in a very boisterous auditorium at the Emirates Palace. They were...

Tiny percentage of users make X miss the spot

People need their own AIs. Personally and collectively. We won’t get them from Anthropic, Apple, Google, OpenAI, Meta, or Microsoft. Not even from Apple. All those companies will want to prov…

“I think that the charge that men have become emasculated by the competence of women is both depressing and untrue.”

Forty years of the neoliberal experiment have created a world of vast and increasing inequality. But this can and should change.

The antitrust suit against Live Nation is not about ticket scalping or ticket sales. It's about total domination over the entire concert industry.

They had good, stable jobs - until the recession hit. Now they're living out of their cars in parking lots.

Military contractor Erik Prince started a private WhatsApp group for his close associates that includes a menagerie of right-wing government officials, intelligence operatives, arms traffickers, and journalists. We got their messages.

Books? Sure, but also free legal help, "digital navigators" and "sensory rooms."

Ending a relationship with the person you pay to cut your hair, walk your dog, or work on your home can be awkward. But if you need to move on, it’s better to make a clean break.

MoviePass’ Black founders finally get to speak their peace in HBO’s new documentary.

The rise of AI is creating both crisis and opportunity

No.312 — What does progress look like on a planet at its limit? ⊗ How to implement foresight in organisations ⊗ The surprising power of small, locally run AI

As the world's leading society of music professionals, the Recording Academy is dedicated to celebrating, honoring, and sustaining music's past, present, and future.

As the famous passage in the Bible goes, “The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and

Once a vibrant platform for artists, DeviantArt is now buckling under the weight of bots and greed—and spurning the creative community that made it great.