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In the last three decades, youth culture has moved from a deep suspicion of commerce to a passionate defense of anti-anti-commerce to an entire generation of "creatives” who leverage the commercial market… to do even more commerce

In the 1990s, there was…

On Wednesday, President Trump signed an executive order: "Advancing Artificial Intelligence Education for American Youth."

You should approach this as a Rorschach Test, of sorts: use it to evaluate what others – particularly those who are trying to sell…

Can AI really do all of the things people want it to do — and what exactly are people actually talking about when they talk about AI? Yutong Liu & The Bigger Picture   / https://betterimagesofai.org / https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

The operating system of our era — and why every empire will be half-media, half-machine.

Fair warning: this is the longest thing I've written on this newsletter. I do apologize.

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Last week, Bloomberg profiled Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, revealing that he's either…

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Draw a distinction – and cross it.

Fiction can be an important tool to explore complex science and technology questions. Arula Ratnakar discusses how storytelling can help both experts and nonexperts think about complex issues.

Visually browse the best of Hollywood "true" stories, scene by scene, to see how true or false they really are.

"'Now, what I want is, Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts: nothing else will ever be of any service…