We can steal the future back from Big Tech oligarchs
Annalee Newitz on the cyberlosers. Plus tons of great new music
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Steal this future
By Annalee Newitz
We don't need to let the Big Tech oligarchs and creepy cyber-libertarians decide what city—and what kind of society—we want to live in.
Can they digitize your epiphanies?
By Leah Isobel
At the Human + Tech conference, a movement to meld AI to personhood that ended up feeling more machine than humankind.
Under the Stars: Stepping into the future with Secret Sidewalk
By John-Paul Shiver
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