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Jun 5, 2025
In the spring of 1940, Isaac Asimov, who had just turned twenty, published a short story titled “Strange Playfellow.” It was about an artificially intelligent machine...
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Jan 31, 2025
In 1968, a young Michael Crichton, still a student at Harvard Medical School, sent a manuscript to Robert Gottlieb, who had just taken over as editor-in-chief at Knopf. The document...
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Jan 23, 2025
In 1881, James Bonsack patented an automated cigarette-making machine, and, in the years that followed, smoking became much more prevalent in America. Parents and reformers grew...
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Jan 21, 2025
In 2013, I wrote a blog post titled “Why I Never Joined Facebook.” Social media had grown so ubiquitous that I felt obligated to justify my abstention; I pointed out that...
Jun 5, 2025In the spring of 1940, Isaac Asimov, who had just turned twenty, published a short story titled “Strange Playfellow.” It was about an artificially intelligent machine...
Jan 31, 2025In 1968, a young Michael Crichton, still a student at Harvard Medical School, sent a manuscript to Robert Gottlieb, who had just taken over as editor-in-chief at Knopf. The document...