- This dumb smart fridge shows why the internet of things will break [iFixit]
- Why your new smartphone is probably not as good as your phone from a decade ago [The Telegraph]
- What we have lost now we can no longer read the sky [Aeon]
- User behaviour: should the net be regulated like drugs or casinos? [Aeon]
- Digital culture, meet analog fever [NYT]
- Stop Googling. Let’s talk. [NYT]
- What’s lost as handwriting fades? [NYT]
- How drones make war too easy. [Defense One]
- What we do to nature, we do to ourselves [A New and Ancient Story]
No Tech Reader #4
No Tech Reader #3
- Future Reading. [Aeon Magazine]
- The lost art of getting lost. [BBC]
- Boredom is not a problem to be solved. It’s the last privilege of a free mind. [The Guardian]
No Tech Reader #2
“The robots aren’t taking our jobs; they’re taking our leisure.” (The Automation Myth, Vox)
- Dark Thoughts on Ecomodernism. [The Dark Mountain Blog]
- The End of Walking [Aeon Magazine]
- A Fading Tradition in Spain Gets an Unusual Boost: Shepherd School. [NYT]
- Tinder and the Dawn of the “Dating Apocalyps”. [Vanity Fair]
- Fly or Die: Air Travel and the Internationalisation of Academic Careers. [The Demand Centre]
- Hackers Remotely Kill a Jeep on the Highway — With me in it. [Wired] Via Death By Car.
- The Automation Myth. [Vox] Via Aaron Vansintjan.
No Tech Reader #1
- Killer robots: the soldiers that never sleep [BBC]
- Let children move around, stand or walk in the classroom. You’ll see the difference [The Conversation]
- Mixed fortunes as solidarity economy takes root in Greece [The Guardian]
- When the end of civilization is your day job [Esquire] Via Ran Prieur.
- The internet of things you don’t really need [The Atlantic]