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Doomsday Profiteers: On Corporate America’s Y2K Response

Doomsday Profiteers: On Corporate America’s Y2K Response

Leigh Claire La Berge Looks Back at the Digital Apocalypse That Wasn’t

By Leigh Claire La Berge | July 1, 2025

On the Very Real Dangers of the Artificial Intelligence Hype Machine

On the Very Real Dangers of the Artificial Intelligence Hype Machine

Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna Explore AI History, the Cold War, and a Fatally Overhyped Idea

By Literary Hub | May 13, 2025

What Interacting With Chatbots Can Reveal About Ourselves

What Interacting With Chatbots Can Reveal About Ourselves

Webb Keane on the Anthropology Behind Our Relationship With Artificial Intelligence

By Webb Keane | February 7, 2025

The 20th-Century Technological Debate That Foretold Our 21st-Century Fears

The 20th-Century Technological Debate That Foretold Our 21st-Century Fears

Andrew Smith on the Competing Predictions of Edsger Dijkstra and Douglas Engelbart

By Andrew Smith | August 22, 2024

Can Computers Create? A Short History of Mechanized Artistic Ambition

Can Computers Create? A Short History of Mechanized Artistic Ambition

Mark Graham, Callum Cant and James Muldoon Consider the Creative Possibilities and Limits of Artificial Intelligence

By Mark Graham, Callum Cant and James Muldoon | August 12, 2024

Micheal O’Siadhail on the Pleasure of Writing Poems by Hand

Micheal O’Siadhail on the Pleasure of Writing Poems by Hand

The Author of Desire Charts His Journey from Pencils to Typewriters to Computers and Back

By Micheal O'Siadhail | December 13, 2023

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Unlocking Digital Doors: On the Hacker Group That Told Congress They Could Take Down the Internet

By Walter J. Scheirer | December 7, 2023

How Complex Math and Human Innovation Created the Calculator

By Keith Houston | August 31, 2023

Camonghne Felix on Humiliation, Trauma and Finding Comfort in Computers

By Camonghne Felix | February 16, 2023

How Collaborating With Artificial Intelligence Could Help Writers of the Future

How Collaborating With Artificial Intelligence Could Help Writers of the Future

On the Growing Potential of Computational Literature

By Drew Zeiba | November 9, 2021

How America Has Always Advertised the Next Golden Age of Computers

How America Has Always Advertised the Next Golden Age of Computers

A Brief History of Selling the Future

By Ryan Mungia | February 11, 2021

Brittle Mac Keyboards, the True Enemy of Letters

Brittle Mac Keyboards, the True Enemy of Letters

The Time Jeremy Sigler Went on a Proper Rant in an Apple Store

By Jeremy Sigler | September 30, 2020

In the 1990s, Feminism Found a New Ally: Computers

In the 1990s, Feminism Found a New Ally: Computers

Lisa Levenstein Revisits the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing

By Lisa Levenstein | July 30, 2020

The man responsible for cut/copy/paste (and making countless writers' lives easier) has died.

The man responsible for cut/copy/paste (and making countless writers' lives easier) has died.

By Jessie Gaynor | February 19, 2020

Adriano Olivetti, Industrialist, Typewriter King... Antifascist?

Adriano Olivetti, Industrialist, Typewriter King... Antifascist?

On Espionage and Resistance in World War II Italy

By Meryle Secrest | November 18, 2019

Psst. Turns out 80% of books published in 1924-1963 are secretly in the public domain.

Psst. Turns out 80% of books published in 1924-1963 are secretly in the public domain.

By Emily Temple | August 2, 2019

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