The Future Is Not Only Useless, It’s Expensive An Article by Dan Brooks www.gawker.com This is how NFTs make me feel: like the future is useless but expensive, and world-altering technology is now in the hands of a culture so aesthetically and spiritually impoverished that it should maybe go back to telling stories around the cooking fire for a while, just to remember how to mean something. A particular deficiency of which they all partake technologyfuturismmeaning
Fish: a tap essay A Mixed Media Work by Robin Sloan www.robinsloan.com This is a kind of manifesto about the difference between liking something on the internet and loving something on the internet. It’s also an experiment in a new format: a “tap essay,” presenting its argument tap by tap, making its case with typography, color, and a few surprises. The Student, The Fish, and Agassiz