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interactive entertainment
Oct. 31, 2023
‘WTF Is Silent Hill: Ascension ?’ The horror video-game franchise is back with an “interactive streaming series.” Its creators think it could be the future of entertainment.
By Lewis Gordon
respect the classics
July 5, 2023
Y’all Better Not Turn Dolly Parton Into a Hologram “I don’t want to leave my soul here on this earth.”
By Justin Curto
artificial intelligence
June 20, 2023
Inside the AI Factory As the technology becomes ubiquitous, a vast tasker underclass is emerging — and not going anywhere.
By Josh Dzieza
6 Stand-ups Analyze ChatGPT’s Attempts to Steal Their Jobs “It’s eerie, but there are comedians who are worse than this.”
By Hershal Pandya
Elon Musk’s Incredible Shrinking Future He charmed his fans with visions of Mars and cool cars. But an “everything app” just sounds like a nightmare.
By John Herrman
just asking questions
Sept. 30, 2022
Will the Metaverse Really Transform Our Lives? Venture capitalist Matthew Ball on the virtual worlds that may define the future.
By Benjamin Hart
Will DALL-E the AI Artist Take My Job? I was unnerved by how well DALL-E 2 mimics a human photo editor, turning text into original artwork. So I put my AI competition to the test.
By Megan Paetzhold
In These Novels of Tech Dystopia, Memories Belong to the Cloud Jennifer Egan’s The Candy House and Vauhini Vara’s The Immortal King Rao are two very different books with a troubling shared prediction.
By Mallika Rao
members only
Jan. 12, 2022
By Rachel Sugar
Lessons in Tending Your Metaverse What Facebook could learn from Reddit.
By Choire Sicha
the money game
Oct. 24, 2021
Why Your Group Chat Could Be Worth Millions If you turn it into a DAO, that is. But what’s a DAO? It’s a little bit cryptocurrency, a little bit gamer clan, a little bit pyramid scheme.
By Max Read
New York Will Be Electing a Governor Soon. Who Is the Front-runner? There’s a big question hanging over the field — and it doesn’t even involve Andrew Cuomo.
By David Freedlander
Now Anyone Can Perform As Holly Herndon With AI ‘Digital Twin,’ Holly+ By sharing her voice, the electronic composer is “encouraging people to experiment with a new and exciting technology.”
By Zoe Haylock
Where Will Skin Care Go From Here? It will involve fixing what we damaged during the pandemic.
By Daise Bedolla
What Will Be Cool This Summer? Quarantine has made way for a certain kind of person and their taste.
By Safy-Hallan Farah
The Return of My Garbage Self Everything feels so close now, including her.
By Lydia Kiesling
Welcome to the Dissociation Generation Can a new era of drugs help us prioritize healing over hedonism?
By Michelle Lhooq
After the Pandemic, Where Will Delivery Go? It is supposedly the future of restaurants, but is it the future we still want?
By Rachel Sugar
Long Live Hugs May I never take them for granted again.
By Josh Gondelman
Pressing Our Ears to the Wall This pandemic has been a master class in community.
By Camonghne Felix
I’ll Meet You Anywhere Eventually, friendship will be expansive again.
By Saeed Jones
A Queasy Nostalgia for the Movies I miss how simple an afternoon at the independent theater used to seem.
By Brandon Taylor
who ya gonna call?
Feb. 18, 2021
Ghost Kitchens Will Always Be Dumb They are not, in fact, the future of restaurants.
By Rachel Sugar
The Fate of American Movie Theaters Looks Terribly Bleak Theater owners across the country explain how they’re going to survive 2020: “It’s a darker time now than when theaters were initially closed.”
By Mike Sampson
How Hollywood Studios Are Scrambling to Make TV Studios are racing to figure out how to film before we run out of new shows.
By Mark Harris
Is This the Future of NYC Restaurant Dining? Yesterday, Cipriani Downtown tested service with PPE.
By Chris Crowley
What If Improv Were Good? The Middleditch & Schwartz specials suggest a future where the form belongs to performers, not theaters.
By Jesse David Fox
Jessica Cisneros Should Be the Future of Her Party Democratic leaders are on the wrong side of a generational conflict.
By Sarah Jones
What Comes After TV? Snapchat is making hypercondensed shows specifically to watch on a smartphone. It’s harder than you’d think.
By Kathryn VanArendonk
meat alternatives
Jan. 7, 2020
Everything You Need to Know About Impossible Foods’ Plant-Based ‘Pork’ The tech company’s quest to create a vegetarian alternative for every animal protein on Earth continues apace.
By Nikita Richardson
What It’s Really Like to Eat a VR Dinner Feasting on light-filled pearls while flying through space.
By Daniel Modlin
today in 2029
Nov. 13, 2019
Inside the the World’s First Mainstream Album Made With AI Holly Herndon walks us through how she made Proto using her “inhuman child,” Spawn.
As told to Andy Beta
Soylent Now Sells Food — Is It Any Good? Will Soylent Squared be the protein bar of the future?
By Sanam Yar
Here Is Precisely What’s Gonna Happen in Tech in 2019 What’s in store for us this year? Just all of the things on this very real list.
By Brian Feldman
Amazon Is Testing Its Cashier-less Technology for Bigger Stores If it’s implemented at Whole Foods, employees’ worst fears would be confirmed.
By Chris Crowley
What Will Happen to the Supreme Court in 20 Years? Legal reporter Dahlia Lithwick reveals her prediction for the future of the Supreme Court.
By The Editors
food delivery
Oct. 9, 2018
By Chris Crowley
hard to swallow
Sept. 13, 2018
Researchers Want to Engineer Your Perfect Diet — They Just Need Your DNA Companies like Nestlé are combining the dinner-in-a-pill fantasies of science fiction with the privacy concerns of Facebook.
By Clint Rainey
the future
Sept. 12, 2018
By Chris Crowley
he’s from the year 6491
June 4, 2018
By Kelly Conaboy
Glitch Capitalism: How Cheating AIs Explain Our Stagnant Present American society has come to follow the same logic as glitch-hunting AIs, and in the process become vulnerable to huge inequalities and injustices.
By Malcolm Harris
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