We’re lost in the garden of forking memes, and the idea of linear progress along a single historical time line seems like a quaint artifact from a much simpler era. Grand visions of the future are few and far between; the pop cultural landscape is littered with post-apocalyptic dystopias. If we want to make sense of how we got here, we have to... See more

Real Life — a magazine about living with technology, with an emphasis on living. Though it’s now archived, it is still an incredibly rich source of esssays that connect technology to identity. I think archived sites are amazing places to see what opinions on certain topics used to be and how they’ve since changed.

Long before AI entered the chat, years of dopamine flatlining and compulsive self-curation had worn down the boundary between the real and the rendered.