Are smartphones destroying our focus, our relationships, and even our humanity?

Molly White of “Web3 is Going Great” on the scams and lies of the crypto economy.

A dangerous new religious belief offers grounds for giving up on the physical world and living 100% online.

Susan Sontag was right: cameras define reality in ways essential to the workings of a capitalist society.

People attach value to all kinds of nonsense. While “NFTs” are not uniquely ridiculous, their rise is an extreme illustration of status anxiety in our grossly unequal economy.

Google’s for-profit search monopoly has turned information access into a corrupt mess. Both healthcare and web searches should be public, not private.

So-called rationalists have created a disturbing secular religion that looks like it addresses humanity’s deepest problems, but actually justifies pursuing the social preferences of elites.

Big Tech increasingly takes on the role of landlord rather than retailer, spawning an industry of bullshit that begs the question—what is it all for?