Media technologies offer the promise of both eternity and oblivion, but we have a hard time telling the difference between the two.
Memories of mom, Monte Carlos, unions, Sunkist and struggle in 1970s Oxnard.
Cults and multilevel marketing schemes are more American than apple pie, it turns out.
What happens to your online selfhood when you die?
The power of AI to transform numerous fields of our society is not in question. How it will transform those fields is what the debate is all about.
Who would have thought a 1992 book by a writer who described himself as “a fat old asthmatic Glaswegian who lives by painting and writing” would be in the mix for Best Picture in 2024?
The California Faculty Association leadership failed its members, miserably.
With the worst blizzard to strike Chicago in twenty years, I sat in the living room of a shared apartment at the University of Chicago watching the news. The news coverage sent chills deep down to my bones and my stomach was knotted.