James Stevens

“One thing I’m thinking about,” Cunningham wrote, “is whether this election foretells a radical shift in campaign tactics, away from the ‘ground’ and even more ardently toward the Internet and whatever it is we mean when we say ‘television’ now.” In other words, he asked, “Are podcasts and social feeds and Twitch broadcasts the political battlegrou... See more

The divide between performance anxiety and a feeling of

frictionless ease swings on the consumer’s response to

information. It sucks to be broke, but it sucks even more to

receive daily low balance notifications. We know our

preferences are being calculated and used to predict our

next moves, but we still don’t feel like we can take our hands

off the joy... See more

The digital dominance of the 21st Century has sorted us into our own tailored versions of online reality, where we drown in ads and information. It's overwhelming, noisy, and ephemeral. It's hard to have a simple conversation, let alone align the globe on a future worth building.