How to Love Technology Again
We saw it written once that software was eating the world. What really happened, it seems to us, is that software made a world of its own and invited us…
I Saw the Face of God in a Semiconductor Factory
Savary strongly believed that international trade would be the antidote to war. Humans can’t conduct polyglot commerce across borders without cultivating an understanding of foreign laws, customs, and cultures. Savary…
The Mining Industry’s Next Frontier Is Deep, Deep Under the Sea
The nodules have been growing, in utter blackness and near-total silence, for millions of years. Each one started as a fragment of something else—a tiny fossil, a scrap of basalt,…
Keanu Reeves Will Never Surrender to the Machines
Do you guys love science fiction? Stahelski: I’m always big on sci-fi. Like, John Wick is hyperreal. But it’s also got this analog sense. Old computers, old suits, old stuff.…
Unmasking Pedro Pascal, the Complicated New Face of Sci-Fi
Meaning physical pain? Pain of every kind. I don’t like psychological, emotional, or physical pain. Some people will be like, Oh, I know that it’s very likely I’ll break something,…
The Big Fight Over 403 Very Small Wasps
the bottle held a thin broth, light brown, with some uncertain chunks of dark matter bobbing on top—a soup, maybe, but one that you’d never want to eat. Once it…
The Search for a Pill That Can Help Dogs—and Humans—Live Longer
halioua began 2020 with $5.1 million in funding. By way of thanks she sent all of her investors, including Rosen, fluffy toy puppies wearing company bandanas. She secured an office…
Would You Ditch All This Chaos for a Country in the Cloud?
You see the future, right? You want to have a kid, so you go enroll in a network state with Nordic-style social benefits in its territories. You want to Crispr…
The Multifarious Multiplexity of Taika Waititi
About seven minutes into my second conversation with the actor, writer, and director Taika Waititi, he confessed, somewhat abruptly, that he doesn’t like being around people. There was “absolutely nothing…
Taika Waititi Is a Bundle of Contradictions
About seven minutes into my second conversation with the actor, writer, and director Taika Waititi, he confessed, somewhat abruptly, that he doesn’t like being around people. There was “absolutely nothing…