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Computers

The Reenchanted World

by Karl Ove Knausgaard,Translated by Olivia Lasky, Damion Searls,

On finding mystery in the digital age

The Gods of Logic

by Benjamín Labatut,

Before and after artificial intelligence

A Jangling Noise of Words

by Lucy Eisenberg,

From “What Computers Can’t Do,” which appeared in the August 1965 issue of Harper’s Magazine. The complete article—along with the magazine’s entire 174-year archive—is available online at harpers.org/archive. There is…

Artificial Intelligence

From blog posts by Sam Altman since 2013. Altman is the CEO of OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT. My best advice for communicating clearly is to first make sure your…

Broken Links

by Hari Kunzru,

A young woman is waiting in her New York apartment for her fiancé to arrive and take her to city hall to get married. When he doesn’t turn up, she…

Your Own Devices

by Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson,

The Right to Repair movement gains ground

Your Own Devices

Host Violet Lucca,Guest Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson

Does your phone really belong to you if you can’t repair it?

Romancing Kano

by Glenna Gordon,

Photographs from northern Nigeria

The trash folder

by Matthew Power,

As waste, our computers are not easily erased

A wired child

by Brad DeLong,

The high-tech productivity myth

Art by Thomas K. Landauer,

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