The Remarkable Narrative Life of “The Walking Dead”

In turning a product into a platform, AMC transformed a TV show into a cultural phenomenon that invited fans to interact and co-create. Excerpted from “The Sea We Swim In.”

July 26, 2021

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After the Disruption

The digital transition was always going to be a messy one—look at the antitrust ﬁghts that followed the telephone during the analog era. "System Error," by Rob Reich, Mehran Sahami and Jeremy Weinstein.

September 23, 2021

The New Big Brother

Tech companies have shown themselves to be increasingly cavalier with our personal data. Are we handing over too much information? “The Age of Surveillance Capitalism,” by Shoshana Zuboff

January 14, 2019

The Promise of Virtual Reality

The story of virtual reality, the most immersive communications technology to come along since cinema, as told by two of its pioneers, Jeremy Bailenson and Jaron Lanier.

February 6, 2018

The World’s Hottest Gadget

Apple’s iPhone—a 21st-century American icon—could not exist without the labors of Bolivian miners and Chinese factory workers. “The One Device,” by Brian Merchant

June 30, 2017