Ian Bogost

The new technology hasn’t fundamentally transformed the problem—at least not yet.

It is not a goal to be reached, but a dream of new freedom deferred.

An AI risk much dumber—and therefore more likely—than extinction is arriving.

AI-assisted software development could have liberated programmers. Instead, it has become the latest way for Big Tech to confine us.

Successive, overlapping crises reveal that American higher education makes no sense.

An Anthropic researcher quit his job because he believes AI will destroy humanity. His story is going viral because so many others want to believe too.

Why we need wonder

The jet was perhaps the pinnacle of American engineering excellence. Its retirement signals an end to an era of American culture—and ambition.

Except it’s a Ferrari

The sound of a cosmic howl

A ransomware attack took down a popular university-course-management software right in the middle of finals.

Fifteen years after Steve Jobs’s death, the company is a successful, if unexciting, powerhouse.

A few glowing roadside numerals set the national mood.

Inventing a market is less important than perfecting one.

Go to a small liberal-arts college if you can.

The best-known manufacturer of autonomous vacuums declared bankruptcy this week, and no one should be surprised.

Grown-ups killed it.

A smartwatch isn’t capable of doing that much harm. It can also do a lot of good.

Generative AI isn’t hallucinatory. It is multiversal.

The age of travel flexibility is over.