Picture from Pixabay ( free-to-use CCO ) When the iPad was first released in 2010, I remember debating with friends whether these...

In the late ‘80s, Wendell Berry declared jihad against the computer age with a short but controversial essay in Harper’s Magazine.  “Why...

Last week, I drove home from the Cumberland Mall on Route 41, which is a pretty typical retail strip in the Atlanta Metro area—car...

Out of the blue, your hermit crab can talk.        The crab, a gift from your aunt, lives in a large box-like glass fish tank in the...

You live in the murk now, in the great smog cloud that has descended upon everything. The murk dulls your senses and bends the light...

It's taken a long time for me to overcome my techno-optimism. I was born in the mid-1960s, dropped headfirst into the age of revolutions...

The first time I witnessed ChatGPT "hallucinate," I was discussing my own writing with it. As a writer and a writing teacher, I am...

Like many of you, I've been playing with ChatGPT. Yes, playing. Not working, not yet anyway. Ian Bogost, technology writer for The...

When I was a child, July was blackberry season. I lived near a reservoir in rural New Jersey, and I remember walking there with my...

My first job in journalism was writing obituaries for a daily newspaper in Woodbridge, New Jersey. I was a sophomore in college, and I...