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Apple TV+ When Work Is a Terrifying Dystopia
Severance is an unsettling satire about never being able to leave the office.
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Lucy Nicholson / Reuters How Has Netflix Changed Entertainment?
It brought a revolution of convenience and boosted diversity. So what’s the downside?
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Joe Skipper / Reuters Should We Be Afraid of AI in the Criminal-Justice System?
Many states and cities are putting Americans’ fates in the hands of algorithms.
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Inna Gord / Shutterstock Are Influencers Frauds or the Future of Online Commerce?
What a new, and often criticized, industry can tell us about authenticity and the internet
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Thomas Peter / Reuters A Tale of Two Surveillance States
In the latest episode of the podcast Crazy/Genius, we speak with residents of East New York—and hear some frightening parallels.
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Edgar Su / Reuters Why the Internet Is So Polarized, Extreme, and Screamy
We talk with journalists and internet researchers about the rise of online extremism in the latest episode of the podcast Crazy/Genius.
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Artur Debat / Getty What Is Pornography Doing to Our Sex Lives?
In the latest episode of Crazy/Genius, we wade into the debate over pornography to determine what, if anything, can be said about its effects on our relationships.
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Leon Neal / AFP / Getty Images Why Surveillance Is the Climate Change of the Internet
The Atlantic podcast Crazy/Genius returns to explain how privacy became the most important idea on the internet—and why it’s still so confusing.
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Announcing Crazy/Genius Season 3: Unbreak the Internet
Surveillance capitalism, porn wars, totalitarian AI in Brooklyn and Beijing, and other real-life dystopias
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Wikimedia Commons Tech Was Supposed to Be Society’s Great Equalizer. What Happened?
In a special bonus episode of the podcast Crazy/Genius, the computer scientist and data journalist Meredith Broussard explains how “technochauvinism” derailed the dream of the digital revolution.
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Crazy/Genius: Who Killed Local News?
How the Internet broke the news business—and how journalism might survive in a post-advertising world.
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Introducing Crazy/Genius
A new series from The Atlantic about technology and culture. Starting May 10.
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